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I would like to thank Dana Roth (Caltech, retired), Svetlana Korolev (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee), Bob Belford (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), Leah McEwen (Cornell University), Mark Siebert (Elsevier), and an anonymous colleague in pharma for helpful discussions.

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Warr, W.A. MOOCers and shakers and chemistry course takers. J Comput Aided Mol Des 30, 281–284 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10822-016-9908-1

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