Abstract
Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) techniques have found wide application in the fields of drug design, property modeling, and toxicity prediction of untested chemicals. A rigorous validation of the developed models plays the key role for their successful application in prediction for new compounds. The rm2 metrics introduced by Roy et al. have been extensively used by different research groups for validation of regression-based QSAR models. This concept has been further advanced here with introduction of scaling of response data prior to computation of r m2. Further, a web application (accessible from http://aptsoftware.co.in/rmsquare/ and http://203.200.173.43:8080/rmsquare/) for calculation of the rm2 metrics has been introduced here. The present study reports that the web application can be easily used for computation of rm2 metrics provided observed and QSAR-predicted data for a set of compounds are available. Further, scaling of response data is recommended prior to rm2 calculation.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1071-1082 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Journal of Computational Chemistry |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 5 May 2013 |
Keywords
- open access
- QSAR
- r
- software
- validation
- web-based application