Recently Syed Asad Rahman of the EBI sent around a message regarding some new code that he has been developing to perform maximum common substructure detection. It employs the CDK but also includes some alternative methods, which allow it to handle some cases for which the CDK takes forever. An example is determining the MCSS […]
Consolidating Services
Over the last few months I’ve been writing about REST services that I’ve made available. While useful they’ve been a hassle to maintain. The main reason is that many of the Python services (such as the depiction and descriptor services) are actually front-ends to SOAP services written in Java using the CDK. Thus, I have […]
Substructure Matching, REST style
I’ve been putting up a number of REST services for a variety of cheminformatics tasks. One that was missing was substructure searching. In many scenarios it’s useful to be able to check whether a target molecule contains a query substructure or not. This can now be done by visiting URL’s of the form 1http://rguha.ath.cx/~rguha/cicc/rest/substruct/TARGET/QUERY where […]
Annotating Bioassays
I’ve been working for some time with the PubChem Bioassay collection – a set of 1293 assays that cover a range of techniques (enzymatic, phenotypic etc.), targets and sizes (from 20 molecules to 200,000 molecules). In addition, some assays are primary, high-throughput assays whereas a number of them are smaller, confirmatory assays. While an extremely […]
SALI Viewer Now on GitHub
Last year, John Van Drie and I published two papers (here and here) on the Structure Activity Landscape Index, (SALI) which is a way to view SAR data as a network of compounds. Along with the paper ,I put up a simple Java application (licensed under the LGPL) to generate and explore these networks. – […]