With the recent stable release of the CDK (1.3.12) and the inclusion of the new rendering classes, I was able to make a new release of the rcdk (3.1.1) and rcdklibs (1.3.11) packages that support cheminformatics in R. They’ve been pushed to CRAN and should be visible in a day or two. The new features […]
The CDK Volume Descriptor
Sometime back Egon implemented a simple group contribution based volume calculator and it made its way into the stable branch (1.4.x) today. As a result I put out a new version of the CDKDescUI which includes a descriptor that wraps the new volume calculator as well as the hybridization fingerprinter that Egon also implemented recently. […]
Updates to R Packages
I’ve uploaded a new version of fingerprint (v 3.4) which now supports feature fingerprints – fingerprints that are represented as variable length vectors of numbers or strings. An example would be circular fingerprints. Now, when reading fingerprints you have to indicate whether you’re loading binary fingerprints or not (via the binary argument in fp.read). A […]
A Comment on Fingerprint Performance
In a comment to my previous post on bit collisions in hashed fingerprints, Asad reported on some interesting points which would be useful to have up here: Very interesting topic. I have faced these challenges while working with fingerprints and here are few observations from my end. By the way I agree that mathematically the […]
Path Fingerprints and Hash Quality
Recently, on an email thread I was involved in, Egon mentioned that the CDK hashed fingerprints were probably being penalized by the poor hashing provided by Java’s hashCode method. Essentially, he suspected that the collision rate was high and so that the many bits were being set multiple times by different paths and that a fraction of bits were not […]