| 3-D structures vs descriptors [message #1459] |
Tue, 04 January 2022 15:13  |
Christophe
Messages: 31
Registered: January 2022
|
Member |
|
|
Hello everyone,
I am a new user of DataWarrior and I really enjoy it, so many thanks for providing the scientist community with such an advanced tool.
Question: Is generating conformers from 2D structures, or smiles, a prerequisite in the calculation of molecular descriptors such as skelspheres or flexophores or can we do without it? More precisely, If I want to run a similarity/Activity cliff analysis for example, do I need first to compute optimized 3D structures from my 2D .sdf file?
Thanks a lot
All the best
C.
|
|
|
|
| Re: 3-D structures vs descriptors [message #1469 is a reply to message #1459] |
Tue, 11 January 2022 17:00  |
thomas
Messages: 715
Registered: June 2014
|
Senior Member |
|
|
Hallo Christophe,
you don't need conformers for any of the descriptors or any descriptor based calculations. The only descriptor that needs 3D-structures is the flexophore, but it generates them internally. Typically, if a functionality requires 3D-atom-coords, which are not there,then it will show a dialog asking you to generate conformers.
Thomas
|
|
|
|
Search
Help
Members
Register
Login
Home
