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ArticleJournal of cheminformatics2022

Visualizing chemical space networks with RDKit and NetworkX.

Vincent F Scalfani, Vishank D Patel, Avery M Fernandez

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Article in Journal of cheminformatics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
13.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vincent F ScalfaniUniversity Libraries, Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487, USA. vfscalfani@ua.edu.
Vishank D PatelUniversity Libraries, Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487, USA.
Avery M FernandezUniversity Libraries, Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487, USA.
University of Alabama · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article demonstrates how to create Chemical Space Networks (CSNs) using a Python RDKit and NetworkX workflow. CSNs are a type of network visualization that depict compounds as nodes connected by edges, defined as a pairwise relationship such as a 2D fingerprint similarity value. A step by step approach is presented for creating two different CSNs in this manuscript, one based on RDKit 2D fingerprint Tanimoto similarity values, and another based on maximum common substructure similarity values. Several different CSN visualization features are included in the tutorial including methods to represent nodes with color based on bioactivity attribute value, edges with different line styles based on similarity value, as well as replacing the circle nodes with 2D structure depictions. Finally, some common network property and analysis calculations are presented including the clustering coefficient, degree assortativity, and modularity. All code is provided in the form of Jupyter Notebooks and is available on GitHub with a permissive BSD-3 open-source license: https://github.com/vfscalfani/CSN_tutorial.

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Chemical similarity networkChemical space networkCSNMaximum common substructureMolecular similarityNetworkXRDKit

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PMID36578091
PMCPMC9798653
OpenAlexW4312224766

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