A fragment-based drug discovery developed on ciclopirox for inhibition of Hepatitis B virus core protein: An in silico study

• Alireza Mohebbi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Alirezaa2s@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Virology, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Vista Aria Rena Gene Inc., Golestan Province, Gorgan, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2489-585X

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• Touba Ghorbanzadeh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Touba Ghorbanzadeh, Shabnam Naderifar, Fattaneh Khalaj

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tehran North Branch, Islamic Azad University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

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• Shabnam Naderifar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Touba Ghorbanzadeh, Shabnam Naderifar, Fattaneh Khalaj

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Brandenburg Technology University, Senftenberg, Germany

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• Fattaneh Khalaj ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Touba Ghorbanzadeh, Shabnam Naderifar, Fattaneh Khalaj

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Liver and Pancreatobiliary Diseases Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Digestive Diseases Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Fatemeh Sana Askari ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software

  ¶‡ FSA and ASS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Vista Aria Rena Gene Inc., Golestan Province, Gorgan, Iran

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• Ali Salehnia Sammak

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ FSA and ASS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

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