Do you mean dot connected compounds? In that sense, most (if not all) QSAR
descriptors should be evaluating descriptors for individual components
separately. After that what they do depends on the application - if we're
talking about salt forms, probably drop the salt components. Alternatively,
if we're talking about mixtures (which is not really the case for a dot
connected representation), there could be various ways to generate a
mixture descriptor
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Martin Guetlein <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do CDK descriptors handle molecules with multiple compounds in it?
>
> I experimented a bit, and found out that it depends on the descriptor:
> * most descriptors apparently just add up the values of the single
> compounds (like xlogp, that does make no sense does it?)
> * some fail for multi-compound molecules
> * some compute sth else
>
> My application is building QSAR models. I am not a chemist, but my
> feeling is that the clean but complicated solution would be to have
> 'set-valued features' (a set of values instead of a single value) for
> multi-compound molecules. But thats pretty complicated and most of my
> molecules have only one compound. But I think that the average value
> of the single compounds should be preferred for descriptors like
> molecular weight or logp.
>
> Kind regards,
> Martin
>
> P.S.: Sorry, If I missed existing discussions/documentation on this
> issue, I had some problems to denominate (and therefore google) this
> issue.
>
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