Recent versions of rcdk allow you to insert images of chemical structures into R plots, via the view.image.2d and rasterImage functions. One problem with the latter function is that the 2D structure image must be located in plot units, rather than pixel units. Paul Murrell suggested an easy way to insert the raster image into […]
PAINS Substructure Filters as SMARTS
Sometime back Baell et al published an interesting paper describing a set of substructure filters to identify compounds that are promiscuous in high throughput biochemical screens. They termed these compounds Pan Assay Interference Compounds or PAINS. There are a variety of functional groups that are known to be problematic in HTS assays. The reasons for […]