On outliers and activity cliffs why QSAR often disappoints

GM Maggiora - Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2006 - ACS Publications
Quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) have been around for many years and
have been employed in numerous fields from drug design to environmental toxicology …

Quantitative structure‐activity relationship methods: Perspectives on drug discovery and toxicology

R Perkins, H Fang, W Tong… - … and Chemistry: An …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative structure—activity relationships (QSARs) attempt to correlate chemical structure
with activity using statistical approaches. The QSAR models are useful for various purposes …

Similarity to molecules in the training set is a good discriminator for prediction accuracy in QSAR

RP Sheridan, BP Feuston, VN Maiorov… - Journal of chemical …, 2004 - ACS Publications
How well can a QSAR model predict the activity of a molecule not in the training set used to
create the model? A set of retrospective cross-validation experiments using 20 diverse in …

QSAR without borders

EN Muratov, J Bajorath, RP Sheridan… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Prediction of chemical bioactivity and physical properties has been one of the most
important applications of statistical and more recently, machine learning and artificial …

Predictive QSAR modeling workflow, model applicability domains, and virtual screening

A Tropsha, A Golbraikh - Current pharmaceutical design, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship (QSAR) modeling has been traditionally applied
as an evaluative approach, ie, with the focus on developing retrospective and explanatory …

Benchmarks for interpretation of QSAR models

M Matveieva, P Polishchuk - Journal of cheminformatics, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Interpretation of QSAR models is useful to understand the complex nature of
biological or physicochemical processes, guide structural optimization or perform …

Prediction reliability of QSAR models: an overview of various validation tools

P De, S Kar, P Ambure, K Roy - Archives of Toxicology, 2022 - Springer
The reliability of any quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) model depends on
multiple aspects such as the accuracy of the input dataset, selection of significant …

Feature selection methods in QSAR studies

M Goodarzi, B Dejaegher… - Journal of AOAC …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
A quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) relates quantitative chemical structure
attributes (molecular descriptors) to a biological activity. QSAR studies have now become …

Pitfalls in QSAR

MTD Cronin, TW Schultz - Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, 2003 - Elsevier
There are no formal guidelines for the development of quantitative structure–activity
relationships (QSARs). However, there are a number of practices that should be avoided …

Current approaches for choosing feature selection and learning algorithms in quantitative structure–activity relationships (QSAR)

PM Khan, K Roy - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Quantitative structure-activity/property relationships (QSAR/QSPR) are
statistical models which quantitatively correlate quantitative chemical structure information …