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Anchor fragments present a different modality for shape-based screening: the user is required to identify a fragment structure with a meaningful binding mode and the search space is limited to compounds that contain the specified fragment. These requirements enable a new type of search language that supports explicit shape constraints. In essence, a \textit{partial similarity search} \cite{Bronstein2009} can be performed, where instead of optimizing similarity with the entirety of a query shape, the shape constraints specify only part of the shape in detail (e.g., within the binding site) while leaving other parts unspecified (e.g., interactions with solvent). In addition, the use of anchor fragments enable a new mechanism of search. Instead of evaluating the query against every molecule in the virtual screening library, the molecular shapes of the library can be \textit{indexed} so that searches need only evaluate a fraction of the library. This allows large libraries of millions of shapes to be searched on an interactive time scale of a few seconds.  Here we describe the retrospective virtual screening performance of FOMS and explore the potential for our explicit shape constraints, when coupled with expert insight, constraints  to define highly specific filters for the creation of highly-enriched significantly enriched  subsets of large virtual libraries.