Similarity Searching In Chemical Databases Using Molecular Fields And Data Fusion

  • Peter Willett
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Part of the Mathematical and Computational Chemistry book series (MACC)

Abstract

Similarity searching provides a popular means of accessing databases of both 2D and 3D chemical structures [1,2], and involves finding those molecules (the nearest neighbours) that are most similar to a user-defined target structure. The target structure is characterised by a set of structural features, and this set is compared with the corresponding sets of features for each of the structures in the database that is to be searched. Each such comparison permits the calculation of a measure of similarity between the target structure and a database structure, using some quantitative definition of inter-molecular structural similarity [3–5]. The database molecules are then sorted into order of decreasing similarity with the target, giving a ranked list in which the nearest neighbours are located at the top of the list and are thus displayed first to the user. Accordingly, if an appropriate measure of similarity has been used, the first database structures inspected will be those that have the greatest probability of being of interest to the user. Since its introduction in the mid-Eighties [6, 7], similarity searching has proved extremely popular with users, who have found that it provides a means of accessing chemical databases that is complementary to the existing structure and substructure searching facilities.

Keywords

Similarity Measure Data Fusion Target Structure Fusion Rule Molecular Electrostatic Potential 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Peter Willett
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  1. 1.Krebs Institute for BiomolecularResearch and Department Of Information StudiesUniversity of SheffieldWestern Bank, SheffieldUK

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