Identification tests establish the identity of the drug or drugs present in the article and discriminate between compounds of closely related structures that are likely to be present.
To make the similarity scores comparable across different drugs, the final similarity score is normalized by the total number of differential expressed genes: Here, ris the similarity score of gene expression between compounds A and B, and −1 ≤ r ≤ 1.
Typically, collecting a dataset of pharmacological annotations between compounds and a given target is a tedious task.
We computed the chemical structure similarity between compounds using SIMCOMP (Hattori et al., 2003), which provides a global similarity score based on the size of common substructures between compounds using a graph alignment algorithm.
In particular, this is the case when uncertainties differ between compounds (because of different types, amounts, or quality of input data), or a combination of those.
For example, the previous study employed a single conformer per compound, which may not be sufficient for reliable evaluation of 3-D similarity between compounds, as the choice of a different conformer may yield substantially different similarity values and makes the selection of an appropriate conformer a significant consideration.
A number of metrics have been used to quantify the similarity between a compound of interest and a database of compounds allowing the best database results to be selected as possible replacements for the candidate structure.
This study is the first to the authors' knowledge that reports such a markedly different cellular response between two compounds of almost identical binding characteristics.
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