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SUBMITTER: Wang PH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8742058 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Pei-Hua PH Chen Jen-Hao JH Tseng Yufeng Jane YJ
Scientific reports 20220107 1
Pharmaceutical patent analysis is the key to product protection for pharmaceutical companies. In patent claims, a Markush structure is a standard chemical structure drawing with variable substituents. Overlaps between apparently dissimilar Markush structures are nearly unrecognizable when the structures span a broad chemical space. We propose a quantum search-based method which performs an exact comparison between two non-enumerated Markush structures with a constraint satisfaction oracle. The q ...[more]