Waterfall Plots for Dose Response Curves

Waterfall plots are a common visualization method to view multiple spectra and have some similarities with joy plots. In the high throughput screening world, people have plot multiple dose response curves, offset on the z-axis to produce something that looks like a waterfall. An example is Figure 1 in Inglese et al, PNAS, 2006, 103(31). […]

Visual pairwise comparison of distributions

While analysing some data from a dose respons screen, run across multiple cell lines, I need to visualize summarize curve data in a pairwise fashion. Specifically, I wanted to compaure area under the curve (AUC) values for the curve fits for the same compound between every pair of cell line. Given that an AUC needs […]

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 […]