Hi JeanPaul,
The difference between featmorganbv and morganbv is that the first one uses
pharmacophore features for atom descriptions whereas the other one atom types
(it essentially corresponds to the ECFP descriptors). I would suggest to use
featmorganbv_fp only if you want to do more fuzzy similarity searching
(scaffold-hopping and the like).
RDKit fingerprint is (as stated below) a daylight fingerprint like FP that is
using hashed molecular subgraphs - it is ok depending on what you want to do
with it - maybe you have a better in-house descriptor that is optimized for
substructure searching though.
Hope that helps
Nik
From: JP [mailto:jeanpaul.ebe...@inhibox.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 11:05 AM
To: rdkit-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Rdkit-discuss] Best practice: which (database) fingerprints to use ?
Hi there,
I am storing a ton of molecules (~8M - it would be a ton if you print them all
out, and hance use all of the trees in Regent's Park) in a database and using
fingerprints for substructure and similarity searches. The fingerprints I am
currently using are the ones I took blindly from the wikipages documentation
(when in doubt, copy) - specifically torsionbv_fp, morganbv_fp and
atompairbv_fp (from http://code.google.com/p/rdkit/wiki/DatabaseCreation2).
Now I look at the database cartridge documentation -
http://code.google.com/p/rdkit/wiki/ReferenceDocumentation and I see there are
others - some of which I have actually heard about:
featmorganbv_fp(mol,int) : returns a bfp which is the bit vector Morgan
fingerprint for a molecule using chemical-feature invariants. The second
argument provides the radius. This is an FCFP-like fingerprint.
rdkit_fp(mol) : returns a bfp which is the RDKit fingerprint for a molecule.
This is a daylight-fingerprint using hashed molecular subgraphs.
What is the best practice here? Is it to use rdkit_fp ? (I assume this was
added later - and possibly the original documentation is out of date)
What is the difference between featmorganbv and the one I am using (i.e.
morganbv_fp) ?
What do you suggest in your experience?
Any ideas will be highly appreciated - as right now I am quite without any
myself.
Many Thanks
JP
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