Since I do a lot of cheminformatics work in R, I’ve created various functions and packages that make life easier for me as do my modeling and analysis. Most of them are for private consumption. However, I’ve released a few of them to CRAN since they seem to be generally useful. One of them is […]
Which Bits are Important for Similarity Searches?
The recent paper by Wang and Bajorath is an interesting approach to identifying the important bits in a fingerprint, with respect to a dataset. Their discussion focuses on the structural key type fingerprints (such as MACCS and the BCI fingerprints) and the problem they are trying to address is the fact that certain structural features […]