The article presents a software named Pharmer that can be used to screen databases with pharmacophore queries. The novelty is that this software uses a type of data structures named KDB-tree and Bloom fingerprints which make the search much faster compared to other software.
Koes, David Ryan, and Carlos J Camacho. “Pharmer: Efficient and Exact Pharmacophore Search.” Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 51, no. 6 (2011): 1307–14.
The article presents a software named Pharmer that can be used to screen databases with pharmacophore queries. The novelty is that this software uses a type of data structures named KDB-tree and Bloom fingerprints which make the search much faster compared to other software.