From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Wed Sep 14 20:36:10 2005
From: "CCL" <owner-chemistry{:}server.ccl.net>
To: CCL
Subject: CCL: W:Computational drug design blues
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Sent to CCL by: Andrew Fant [fant{:}pobox.com]
By any chance, can you give a pointer into the literature on that index?
I'm not able to get into chemical abstracts at the moment, but both
google and google scholar had no hits at all on "synthetic feasibility
index"

Thanks,
	Andy


CCL wrote:
> Sent to CCL by: "Srinivasan Parthiban" [parthiban-#-gvkbio.com]
> There must be few programs available on estimating the Synthetic
> feasibility Index. I have used it few years back using Tripos software. It
> is purely an empirical method where the calculation is based on the number
> of rings and the functional groups present in the molecule and so on.
>  - Parthi
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