Metabolite Similarity & Dirty Compounds

Edit 10/9/14 – Updated statistics for the 1024 bit fingerprints There’s been some discussion about a paper by O’Hagan et al that have proposed a Rule of 0.5 that states that 90% of approved drugs exhibit a Tanimoto similarity > 0.5 to one or more human metabolites. Their analysis is based on metabolites listed in […]