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Described a program that generated and ranked candidate molecular structures as explanations of mass-spectrometry and formula data using chemical constraints and heuristics.
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The target is the exact 1969 three-author paper. Joshua Lederberg and other chemists made major contributions to the wider DENDRAL project and later papers but are not added to this paper’s byline.
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- Buchanan, Sutherland and Feigenbaum, Heuristic DENDRAL
- Stanford Edward A. Feigenbaum document archive
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Bruce G. Buchanan; Georgia L. Sutherland; Edward A. Feigenbaum
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Buchanan, Sutherland and Feigenbaum: Heuristic DENDRAL
Described a program that generated and ranked candidate molecular structures as explanations of mass-spectrometry and formula data using chemical constraints and heuristics.
Scientific scope
The target is the exact 1969 three-author paper. Joshua Lederberg and other chemists made major contributions to the wider DENDRAL project and later papers but are not added to this paper’s byline.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Bruce G. Buchanan; Georgia L. Sutherland; Edward A. Feigenbaum
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.