If you set all the bits in say the MACCS fp BitSet to 1 and then call  
cardinality(), what do you get?

On Jul 19, 2010, at 7:21 AM, Volker Hähnke wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> three short questions about the fingerprints implemented in the CDK  
> (version 1.3.0).
>
> The length of the BitSet created using the MACCS (Pubchem)  
> Fingerprinter should be 166 (881). This is backed up by the  
> corresponding getSize() method: It returns 166 (881) as length of  
> the fingerprint the Fingerprinter calculates.
>
> But: Calculating fingerprints with these two Fingerprinters and  
> invoking the size() method of the created BitSets returns 192 for  
> MACCS and 896 for the Pubchem fingerprint, which is in conflict with  
> intuition and documentation of the Fingerprinter classes.
>
> This behavior raises the following questions:
> 1) What happens here?
> 2) Where do the additional bits come from?
> 3) Which of the available bits are the "good" ones?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>
> Kind regards
> Volker
>
> --
> Volker Hähnke, Dipl.-Bioinf.
> Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt
> Chair for Chem- and Bioinformatics
> Beilstein-Endowed Chair for Cheminformatics
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