Breakthroughs in Computational Approaches for Drug Discovery

Copyright: © 2017 Chemi G, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. *Corresponding author: Simone Brogi, European Research Centre for Drug Discovery and Development and Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Siena, Via Aldo Moro 2, 53100 Siena, Italy, Tel: +39-0577-234389; E-mail: simonebrogi1976@hotmail.com; brogi32@unisi.it

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