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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-12-17
pubmed:abstractText
We present some new ideas for characterizing and comparing large chemical databases. The comparison of the contents of large databases is not trivial since it implies pairwise comparison of hundreds of thousands of compounds. We have developed methods for categorizing compounds into groups or series based on their ring-system content, using precalculated structure-based hashcodes. Two large databases can then be compared by simply comparing their hashcode tables. Furthermore, the number of distinct ring-system combinations can be used as an indicator of database diversity. We also present an independent technique for diversity assessment called the saturation diversity approach. This method is based on picking as many mutually dissimilar compounds as possible from a database or a subset thereof. We show that both methods yield similar results. Since the two methods measure very different properties, this probably says more about the properties of the databases studied than about the methods.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0920-654X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
447-52
pubmed:dateRevised
2000-12-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Database diversity assessment: new ideas, concepts, and tools.
pubmed:affiliation
Wyeth-Ayerst Research, Pearl River, NY 10965, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article