On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Greg Landrum <greg.land...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Jing Lu <ajin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I was treating AllChem.GetMorganFingerprint(m1,2) the same as ECFP4. I am
>> writing a paper for a open source tool, so I need to be very accurate. I
>> have seen one open source implementation for ECFP, which is from CDK. Most
>> researchers are using Pipeline Pilot to calculate ECFP. But, Pipeline Pilot
>> is not open source.
>>
>
> To be very clear: the only implementation of ECFP is the one in Pipeline
> Pilot. The other implementations like the one in the CDK and the RDKit, may
> have followed the algorithm description that was published, but due to
> differences in aromaticity perception and hashing algorithms the results
> will not be exactly the same.
>

Sorry, should have been more explicit here: when I did the Morgan
fingerprint implementation for the RDKit, I followed the published
algorithm description as closely as I could.

-greg
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