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Many approaches and methods for the generation of multiple conformations have been developed and published since the early 1980s. Below we describe briefly some of the basic concepts and methods of automatic conformer generation. However, interested readers are referred to Chapter 11, Section 7.2 in the Handbook, where the approaches to automatic generation of ensembles of conformations and the program systems that have been developed are described in detail. 

As already mentioned in Section 2.9, automatic 3D structure t eneration has a long tradition in th.c field of chcmoinformatics. Varions algorithms and approaches to addressing the problem of automatically generating 3D molecular models have been developed and published in the literature since the early 1980s, Some of the basic concepts and methods arc discussed in Section 2,9 and a more detailed description is given in Chapter II, Section 7.1 in the Handbook. 

Gasteiger J, C Rudolph and J Sadowski 1990. Automatic Generation of 3D Atomic Coordinates fo Organic Molecules. Tetrahedron Computer Methodology 3 537-547. 

FIG. 2 The xy and a 3D projection of a typical osmotic MD simulation system. The semi-permeable membrane walls are in the yz plane. Periodic boundary conditions automatically generate an infinite pair of walls, infinite in the yz (transverse) directions, with alternating solution and solvent cells, each of thickness half the system width. 

Gaussian includes a facility for automatically generating a starting structure for a transition state optimization based upon the reactants and products that the transition structure connects, known as the STQN method. This feature is requested with the QST2 option to the Opt keyword. Input files using this option will include two title and molecule specification sections. The facility generates a guess for the transition structure which is midway between the reactants and products, in terms of redundant internal coordinates. 

To address these issues regarding adequate structural searching in CHIRBASE, some facilities have been recently added to the user interface. The result is the automatic generation and search of strategic 2D query structures defined with the help of the following commands (Fig. 4-5) ... 

Automatic report generation Report generation will be an important part of the predictive maintenance program. Maximum flexibility in format and detail is important to program success. The system should be able to automatically generate reports a multiple levels of detail. As a minimum, the system should be able to report ... 

Figure 13.3 Potential pharmacophore points can be generated with MOE s site detection algorithm. The white and red dots are the automatically generated site points, and the ligand structure comes from the X-ray structure of the complex. 

The missing link between the constitution of a molecule and its 3D structure in computahonal chemistry is a technique capable of automatically generating 3D models starhng from the connectivity information of a given molecule. Due to its basic role, 3D structure generation is one of the fundamental problems in computahonal chemistry. As a consequence, in recent years a number of automahc 3D model builders and conformer generators have become available. For two comprehensive reviews, see Refs. [3, 4]. 

J. Automatic generation of 3D atomic coordinates for organic molecules. Tetrahedron Comput. Methodol. 1990, 3, 537-547. b) GORINA, Molecular Networks GmbH, Erlangen, Germany, http //www.mol-net.de. 

In the last decades not only thousands of chemical descriptors but also many advanced, powerful modeling algorithms have been made available, The older QSAR models were linear equations with one or a few parameters. Then, other tools have been introduced, such as artificial neural network, fuzzy logic, and data mining algorithms, making possible non linear models and automatic generation of mathematical solutions. 

We emphasize that the exclusion of other feasible reaction generators should not be construed as a limitation of the system — others could be included easily. In fact, our current thinking is that the chemistry of the system should drive the reaction generators, and not vice versa. In this approach, reactions are obtained from mechanistic steps, which allows the automatic generation of any reaction scheme. Work on implementing this approach is in progress (see Section 10). 

For reasons discussed above, we needed a complementary, ancillary tool for comparison of the mass spectra of components from multiple urine samples. We desired that the procedure have several characteristics (1) requires little if any manual data entry by the operator (2) utilizes data automatically generated by ChemStation and organized into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (3) displays both retention times and mass spectral data in the same window (4) minimizes subjective operator judgments and (5) is simple and rapid to use. What emerged after several iterative improvements are the FindPeak macros discussed below. These are largely due to the expertise of Y. Aubut, with valuable input from J. Eggert. 

As to the automatic generation of exact derivatives in existing modular-based process simulator codes directly from the code itself, refer to Griewank and Corliss (1991) or Bischof et al. (1992). 

A spreadsheet program can be used to capture and display the chart information. The chart can then be made accessible via a network server to all those involved in a common operation. Use of the Chemical Reactivity Worksheet provided by NOAA (2002) automatically generates a compatibility chart, as shown in the example of Figure 4.3. 

The hypotheses were automatically generated on the ensembles of ligands constituting the ala, the an,- and the aia-AR supermolecules (compound 38 was excluded). The ligands were taken in the same conformation as they have in the... 

Step 3 Generate and Test - use any CAMD technique (and software, for example, ProCAMD) to automatically generate and test candidates. The selected CAMD technique should be able to generate molecular structures and evaluate their properties with respect to the specified target properties. 

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