Title
Atomic Local Neighborhood Flexibility Incorporation into a Structured Similarity Measure for QSAR.
Abstract
In this work, we introduce a new method to regard the geometry in a structural similarity measure by approximating the conformational space or a molecule. Our idea is to break down the molecular conformation into the local conformations of neighbor atoms with respect to core atoms. This local geometry can be implicitly accessed by the trajectories of the neighboring atoms, which are emerge by rotatable bonds. In our approach, the physicochemical atomic similarity, which can be used in structured similarity measures, is augmented by a local flexibility similarity, which gives a rough estimate of the similarity of the local conformational space. We incorporated this new type of encoding the flexibility into the optimal assignment molecular similarity approach, which can be used as a pseudokernel in support vector machines. The impact of the local flexibility was evaluated on several published QSAR data sets. This lead to an improvement of the model quality on 9 out of 10 data sets compared to the unmodified optimal assignment kernel.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1021/ci800329r
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
Keywords
Field
DocType
structural similarity
Data mining,Quantitative structure–activity relationship,Data set,Similarity measure,Molecule,Support vector machine,Combinatorial chemistry,Atom,Algorithm,Structural similarity,Mathematics,Encoding (memory)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
49
3
1549-9596
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.79
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nikolas Fechner11038.38
Andreas Jahn290.79
Georg Hinselmann3968.12
Andreas Zell41419137.58