Three and four state categorical quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models for skin sensitization have been constructed using data from the murine Local Lymph Node Assay studies. These are the same data we previously used to build two-state (sensitizer, nonsensitizer) QSAR models (Li et al., 2007, Chem. Res. Toxicol. 20, 114-128). 4D-fingerprint descriptors derived from the 4D-...

A ligand-based 3D-QSAR study for the identification of MMP3 inhibitors was developed by applying an innovative alignment method capable of taking into account information obtained from available X-ray MMP3 structures. Comparison of the obtained model with data recently published using a docking-based alignment method indicated that the ligand-based 3D-QSAR model provided better predictive abili...

Membrane-interaction quantitative structure-activity relationship (MI-QSAR) models for two skin penetration enhancer data sets of 61 and 42 compounds were constructed and compared to QSAR models constructed for the same two data sets using only classic intramolecular QSAR descriptors. These two data sets involve skin penetration enhancement of hydrocortisone and hydrocortisone acetate, and the ...

QSAR modeling is a method for predicting properties, e.g. the solubility or toxicity, of chemical compounds using statistical learning techniques. QSAR is in widespread use within the pharmaceutical industry to prioritize compounds for experimental testing or to alert for potential toxicity. However, predictions from a QSAR model are difficult to assess if their prediction intervals are unknown...

Virtual filtering and screening of combinatorial libraries have recently gained attention as methods complementing the high-throughput screening and combinatorial chemistry. These chemoinformatic techniques rely heavily on quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) analysis, a field with established methodology and successful history. In this review, we discuss the computational method...

QSAR approaches, including recent advances in 3D-QSAR, are advantageous during the lead optimization phase of drug discovery and complementary with bioinformatics and growing data accessibility. Hints for future QSAR practitioners are also offered.

Quantitative structure activity relationships (QSARs) are theoretical models that relate a quantitative measure of chemical structure to a physical property or a biological effect. QSAR predictions can be used for chemical risk assessment for protection of human and environmental health, which makes them interesting to regulators, especially in the absence of experimental data. For compatibilit...

A number of binary QSAR models have been developed using methods of artificial neural networks, k-nearest neighbors, linear discriminative analysis, and multiple linear regression and have been compared for their ability to recognize five types of chemical compounds that include conventional drugs, inactive druglikes, antimicrobial substituents, and bacterial and human metabolites. Thus, 20 bin...

Artemisinins with activity against K-1 strains of P. falciparum were modeled the HF/3-21G method. To identify key features artemisinins necessary for their activities, MEP maps built and used. The PCA HCA studies showed that variables HOMO-1 energy, DM, Q1, BA, nCs are responsible separation between more active less compounds. A PLS model three principal components explaining 89% total informat...

A quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) model is typically developed to predict the biochemical activity of untested compounds from the compounds' molecular structures. "The gold standard" of model validation is the blindfold prediction when the model's predictive power is assessed from how well the model predicts the activity values of compounds that were not considered in any wa...