Virulence factor activity relationships (VFARs): a bioinformatics perspective
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Virulence factor-activity relationships: workshop summary.
The concept or notion of virulence factor-activity relationships (VFAR) is an approach for identifying an analogous process to the use of qualitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) for identifying new microbial contaminants. In QSAR, it is hypothesized that, for new chemical contaminants, their potential acute or chronic toxicity may be reasonably estimated on the basis of structural r...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2050-7887,2050-7895
DOI: 10.1039/c6em00689b