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Continuous Chirality Measure chirality descriptors continuous wavelet transforms spectra descriptors contour length size descriptors ( Kuhn length) contour profiles molecular profiles conventional bond order bond order indices conventional bond order ID number ID numbers core count ETA indices... 

The team decided that the system software should be selected from a source that was well-established in the field of technical information. In addition, if one software and one command language could be used for the entire system, i.e., both text and chemical structure, it would be advantageous to the technical community. Because the thesaurus, a hierachical list of controlled terms, was the key to the text or document file, thesaurus software was also necessary. Search software for chemicals had to have the capability to search by substructure or full structure, by name, by compound number, by molecular formula, and by class descriptor. Continuity in both systems support and staff was a very important consideration. Another criterion was that the system be kept up-to-date with enhancements resulting from ongoing research in information science. 

When applied to QSAR studies, the activity of molecule u is calculated simply as the average activity of the K nearest neighbors of molecule u. An optimal K value is selected by the optimization through the classification of a test set of samples or by the leave-one-out cross-validation. Many variations of the kNN method have been proposed in the past, and new and fast algorithms have continued to appear in recent years. The automated variable selection kNN QSAR technique optimizes the selection of descriptors to obtain the best models [20]. 

The VolSurf method was used to produce molecular descriptors, and PLS discriminant analysis (DA) was applied. The statistical model showed two significant latent variables after cross-validation. The 2D PLS score model offers a discrimination between the permeable and less permeable compounds. When the spectrum color is active (Fig. 17.2), red points refer to high permeability, whereas blue points indicate low permeability. There is a region in the central part of the plot with both red and blue compounds. In this region, and in between the two continuous lines, the permeability prediction is less reliable. The permeability model... 

Looking ahead, I am optimistic that we will see continued growth of our knowledge about this and other conceptual DFT-based reactivity and selectivity descriptors as well as broadening applications in understanding a diverse class of biophysicochemical properties and processes. 

Adults continue to associate new odors with pleasant and unpleasant situations in social and sex life, work and recreation, and concerning food and drink. The human patterns of odor recognition and preferences do not merely involve the olfactory nerve and its central projections. Learned associations are formed and stored in memoiy. To retrieve odor information, we need affective and cognitive components, as well as verbal descriptors. Without the latter, an odor appears familiar but cannot be labeled, the tip-of-the-nose-phenomenon (Lawless and Engen, 1977). 

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Vectors whose components have continuous values correspond to the more traditional types of vectors found in the physical sciences. They are of identical form to the discrete-valued vectors (see Eq. 2.16) except that the components, vA(xk), are continuous valued. In chemoinformatics, however, the nature of the components is considerably different from those typically found in physics. For example, physiochemical properties, such as logP, solubility, melting point, molecular volume, Hammett ap parameters, and surface charge, as well as other descriptors derived explicitly for the purpose, such as BCUTs... 

While not exactly the same as the methods described above in that DOE cannot be applied retrospectively to diverse datasets, it has been used very successfully to guide the selection and evaluation of compounds from combinatorial libraries (59,60). However, DOE has been successfully applied only in cases where limited libraries of related compounds (e.g., peptides) were being evaluated. The reason for this is intuitively obvious, as one of the assumptions of DOE is that variability in the descriptors is continuous and related to activity over a smooth response surface, so that trends and patterns can be readily identified. With HTS data both of these assumptions are generally not true, as molecules can display discontinuous responses to changing features, and the SAR of even related compounds does not map to a smooth continuous response surface (for example, Fig. 2). 

Fig. 2. Example of rough activity landscape. This figure shows the activity landscape for a series of related antibacterial compounds plotted in using the 2D BCUT descriptors to arrange the compounds. (A) Shows how the compounds are arrayed in a 2D representation of the chemistry space with the height of the marker being proportional to the minimum inhibitor concentration of the compounds [the smaller the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) the more potent the compound]. (B) This second panel presents the upper figure as a 2D figure to enhance the sharp cutoff between active and inactive compounds, emphasizing the point that activity landscapes are rarely smooth continuous functions.

The table shows a number of representative descriptor types (there are many more) that can be used to define chemical spaces. Each descriptor adds a dimension (with discrete or continuous value ranges) to the chemical space representation (e.g., selection of 18 descriptors defines an 18-dimensional space). Axes of chemical space are orthogonal only if the applied molecular descriptors are uncorrelated (which is, in practice, hardly ever the case). 

In contrast to partitioning methods that involve dimension reduction of chemical reference spaces, MP is best understood as a direct space method. However, -dimensional descriptor space is simplified here by transforming property descriptors with continuous or discrete value ranges into a binary classification scheme. Essentially, this binary space transformation assigns less complex -dimensional vectors to test molecules, with each dimension having unity length of either 0 or 1. Thus, although MP analysis proceeds in -dimensional descriptor space, its dimensions are scaled and its complexity is reduced. 

The adaptations introduced in the fast exchange algorithm to optimize the UCC criterion allow selection from databases of hundreds of thousands of compounds. Currently, the implementation is limited to tens of continuous descriptors, though discrete descriptors like fragment counts could be handled in principle. Further work is also needed for even larger databases with hundreds of descriptors. 

The UCC and clustering methods require a descriptor set—BCUT or constitutional descriptors. As our implementation of UCC requires continuous descriptors, the 46 constitutional descriptors, which include discrete counts, were also reduced to either the first 6 or the first 20 principal components (PCs). Thus, the UCC algorithm was applied to the BCUT descriptors and either 6 or 20 PCs from the constitutional descriptors. In addition to these three sets, clustering was also applied to the 46 raw constitutional descriptors. The random design requires no descriptors. 

To do this, we define two additional multi dimensional spaces B and C (Figure 1). Space B contains the values of the catalyst descriptors that pertain to these catalysts e.g. backbone flexibility, partial charge on the metal atom, lipophilicity) as well as the reaction conditions (temperature, pressure, solvent type, and so on). Finally, space C contains the catalyst figures of merit (i.e., the TON, TOF, product selectivity, price, and so forth). Spaces B and C are continuous, and are arranged such that each dimension in each space represents one property. 

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