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Confab - Systematic generation of diverse low-energy conformers

Noel M O'Boyle1,2*, Tim Vandermeersch2, Christopher J Flynn1, Anita R Maguire1 and Geoffrey R Hutchison2,3

Author Affiliations

1 Analytical and Biological Chemistry Research Facility, University College Cork, Western Road, Cork, Co. Cork, Ireland

2 Open Babel development team

3 Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

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Journal of Cheminformatics 2011, 3:8 doi:10.1186/1758-2946-3-8

Published: 16 March 2011

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Crystal structures used to test conformational coverage. This is a text file in SDF format containing biological conformations (as downloaded from PubChem) of 1000 molecules. This is a subset of the data used in the study by Borodina et al.

Format: SDF Size: 1.6MB Download file

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Additional file 2:

Generated 3D structures used to test conformational coverage. This is a text file in SDF format containing 3D structures of the 1000 molecules in the dataset generated using Open Babel. These were used as the input to Confab.

Format: SDF Size: 2.9MB Download file

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