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Exploring Chemical Space: Recent Advances in Chemistry

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Recent advances and concepts for exploring chemical space are highlighted in this chapter and show how the synthetic chemical world meets the demand of making large and relevant collection of new molecules for analyzing the biological world more closely.

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Wong, YS. (2012). Exploring Chemical Space: Recent Advances in Chemistry. In: Zanders, E. (eds) Chemical Genomics and Proteomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 800. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-349-3_2

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