Improvements to Daylight Clustering

Jack Delany, John Bradshaw

DAYLIGHT Chemical Information Systems, Inc. Mission Viejo, CA USA

Acknowledgements

John MacCuish (Mesa Analytics), for helpful discussions on the ties issue.

Roger Sayle (Open Eye), for his initial work on the expression evaluator.

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