On 1 June 2012 11:22,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pity!  ALogP is one of the most popular and potentially useful descriptors
>

Agree. The code is obviously buggy, needs a volunteer to fix it up :)

Nina

P.S. unfortunately nobody picked up my last year challenge for a good
open source LogP model ...
http://www.opentox.org/pipermail/development/2011/001575.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nina Jeliazkova [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 01 June 2012 09:01
> To: Lawson Kevin GBJH
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Cdk-user] ALOGP Descriptor
>
> Kevin,
>
> Better not use ALogP at all.  Back at the list you could find reports
> it is not performing well. I think it was decided to be removed /
> deprecated.
>
> Best regards,
> Nina
>
> On 1 June 2012 10:58,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>>
>>
>> I am getting some strange results from the ALOGP descriptor algorithm.
>> LICSS uses the following code to prep molecules for descriptor calculation:
>>
>>
>>
>>                 atomContainer = sp.parseSmiles(s);
>>
>>
>>     
>> AtomContainerManipulator.percieveAtomTypesAndConfigureAtoms(atomContainer);
>>
>>
>> CDKHueckelAromaticityDetector.detectAromaticity(atomContainer);
>>
>>                 CDKHydrogenAdder ha =
>> CDKHydrogenAdder.getInstance(DefaultChemObjectBuilder.getInstance());
>>
>>                 ha.addImplicitHydrogens(atomContainer);
>>
>>
>> AtomContainerManipulator.convertImplicitToExplicitHydrogens(atomContainer);
>>
>>
>>
>> With this preparation, the ALOGP descriptor returns 0.0 for both the Smiles
>> c1ccccc1 and for c1ncccc1 (benzene and pyridine)
>>
>> I also ran the first 1000 compounds from the Wellcome AntiMalarial dataset
>> through the calculation.  As you can see from the attachment (the first 250
>> compounds),
>>
>> the values are usually much lower than the quoted values in the data set (~4
>> log units on average) and are, indeed usually obviously too low.
>>
>>
>>
>> To check that I wasn't making a mistake with the submission code, I ran all
>> 1000 compounds through Rajarshi's CDK Descriptor calculator:
>>
>> http://rguha.net/code/java/cdkdesc.html with identical results (Rajarshi's
>> calculator also returns 0.0 for benzene).  I have also converted the
>>
>> compounds to Kekule form using the FixBondOrdersTool.  Results are
>> different, but no better! (also in the attached file).  I have tried
>> changing the
>>
>> order of the preparation steps but it doesn't make any difference to the
>> results.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>>
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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