Encryption of chemical information has not been a very common topic in cheminformatics. There was an ACS symposium in 2005 (summary) that had a number of presentations on the topic of “safe exchange” of chemical information – i.e., exchanging information on chemical structures without sharing the structures themselves. The common thread running through many presentations was to […]
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 […]