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QSAR Modeling: Where have you been? Where are you going to?

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Cherkasov, Artem, Muratov, Eugene N., Fourches, Denis, Varnek, Alexandre, Baskin, Igor I., Cronin, Mark, Dearden, John, Gramatica, Paola +12 more·2014·Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

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.

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Cherkasov, A., Muratov, E. N., Fourches, D., Varnek, A., Baskin, I. I., Cronin, M., Dearden, J., Gramatica, P., Martin, Y. C., Todeschini, R., Consonni, V., Kuz’min, V. E., Cramer, R., Benigni, R., Yang, C., Rathman, J., Terfloth, L., Gasteiger, J., Richard, A., & Tropsha, A.
Affiliations
  • University of British Columbia (CA)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • Université de Strasbourg (FR)
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU)
  • Liverpool John Moores University (GB)
  • University of Insubria (IT)
  • Martin Consulting, Waukegan, Illinois 60079, United States
  • University of Milano-Bicocca (IT)
  • Department of Molecular Structure and Cheminformatics, A. V. Bogatsky Physical-Chemical Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Odessa, 65080, Ukraine
  • Tripos, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri 63144, United States
  • Istituto Superiore di Sanità (IT)
  • Altamira LLC, Columbus, Ohio 43235, United States
  • The Ohio State University (US)
  • Molecular Networks (Germany) (DE)
  • Environmental Protection Agency (US)
Corresponding author
Tropsha, Alexander
Venue
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Published
2014-01-06
Volume
57
Issue
12
Pages
4977-5010
ISSN
  • 0022-2623 (ISSN-L)
  • 1520-4804
OpenAlex
W2033757486
Cited by
2,164
References
288
Citations by year
2026: 288 · 2025: 225 · 2024: 181 · 2023: 173 · 2022: 211 · 2021: 231 · 2020: 220 · 2019: 167 · 2018: 154 · 2017: 137 · 2016: 81 · 2015: 63 · 2014: 30 · 2012: 1
FWCI
63.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
  • BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca) (submittedVersion)
  • IrInSubria (University of Insubria) (submittedVersion)
  • UNC Libraries
Funders
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (RD 83499901, 83499901)
  • National Institutes of Health (5r01gm096967-03, GM 096967)
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM096967, GM066940, R01GM066940, R01-GM096967)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Machine Learning in Materials Science
Keywords
QSAR, QSAR model validation
MeSH terms
Artificial Intelligence, Models, Molecular, Pharmacokinetics, Quantum Theory, Toxicology, Drug Design, Databases, Factual, Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship, Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides, Complex Mixtures, Nanostructures, History, 20th Century, History, 21st Century

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