A Combination of Pharmacophore and Docking-based Virtual Screening to Discover new Tyrosinase Inhibitors

Serena Vittorio1,2, Thomas Seidel2, Maria Paola Germanò1

  • 1Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Palatucci, 98168, Messina, Italy.

Molecular Informatics
|September 12, 2019
PubMed

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