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The Scientific World Journal
Volume 2012, Article ID 410914, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/410914
Research Article

Ligand-Based Virtual Screening Using Bayesian Inference Network and Reweighted Fragments

Ali Ahmed,1,2 Ammar Abdo,1,3 and Naomie Salim1

1Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Universiti Tecknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Malaysia
2Faculty of Engineering, Karary University, Khartoum 12304, Sudan
3Department of Computer Science, Hodeidah University, Hodeidah, Yemen

Received 28 October 2011; Accepted 11 December 2011

Academic Editors: M. A. Fischl and G. D. Morse

Copyright © 2012 Ali Ahmed et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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