From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Sat Apr  5 18:00:00 2008
From: "Willem van Hoorn willem.van.hoorn^pfizer.com" <owner-chemistry..server.ccl.net>
To: CCL
Subject: CCL: Original reference for Tanimoto similarity
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Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 17:58:36 -0400


Sent to CCL by: "Willem  van Hoorn" [willem.van.hoorn~!~pfizer.com]
Hello,

The Tanimoto coefficient is bread and butter for 2D chemical similarity searches but does anyone know the original publication? The reference below is as close as I could get.

A Computer Program for Classifying Plants
David J. Rogers and Taffee T. Tanimoto 
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/citation/132/3434/1115

Thanks,

Willem van Hoorn