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ArticleJournal of medicinal chemistry2014

QSAR modeling: where have you been? Where are you going to?

Artem Cherkasov, Eugene N Muratov, Denis Fourches, Alexandre Varnek, Igor I Baskin, Mark Cronin, John Dearden, Paola Gramatica, Yvonne C Martin, Roberto Todeschini and 10 more

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Article in Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 619 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

619 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Artem CherkasovVancouver Prostate Centre, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, British Columbia, V6H3Z6, Canada.
Eugene N Muratov
Denis Fourches
Alexandre Varnek
Igor I Baskin
Mark Cronin
John Dearden
Paola Gramatica
Yvonne C Martin
Roberto Todeschini
Viviana Consonni
Victor E Kuz'min
Richard Cramer
Romualdo Benigni
Chihae Yang
James Rathman
Lothar Terfloth
Johann Gasteiger
Ann Richard
Alexander Tropsha

Funding

PREDICTIVE QSAR MODELINGR01GM066940 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI TROPSHA, ALEXANDER · 2003 to 2011
$3.0M
Chembench: the Integrated Web Portal to Accelerate Cheminformatics and Chemical GR01GM096967 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI POZEFSKY, DIANE, TROPSHA, ALEXANDER · 2012 to 2015
$1.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM066940NIGMS NIH HHS GM096967NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM066940NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM096967
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantitative structure-activity relationship modeling is one of the major computational tools employed in medicinal chemistry. However, throughout its entire history it has drawn both praise and criticism concerning its reliability, limitations, successes, and failures. In this paper, we discuss (i) the development and evolution of QSAR; (ii) the current trends, unsolved problems, and pressing challenges; and (iii) several novel and emerging applications of QSAR modeling. Throughout this discussion, we provide guidelines for QSAR development, validation, and application, which are summarized in best practices for building rigorously validated and externally predictive QSAR models. We hope that this Perspective will help communications between computational and experimental chemists toward collaborative development and use of QSAR models. We also believe that the guidelines presented here will help journal editors and reviewers apply more stringent scientific standards to manuscripts reporting new QSAR studies, as well as encourage the use of high quality, validated QSARs for regulatory decision making.

Indexed as

Drug DesignModels, MolecularQuantitative Structure-Activity RelationshipAntimicrobial Cationic PeptidesArtificial IntelligenceComplex MixturesDatabases, FactualHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyNanostructuresPharmacokineticsQuantum TheoryToxicologyAntimicrobial Cationic PeptidesComplex Mixtures

Identifiers

PMID24351051
PMCPMC4074254

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