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Traditional clinical trials for NF antibiotics are costly and time-consuming, necessitating the development of computational approaches that can reliably capture drug behavior.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The study employs degree-based topological indices to represent molecular structures of NF antibiotics and develops QSPR models to predict their physicochemical properties. 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