peter murray-rust wrote:
> I've had a long talk with Henry. Essentially his position is that he has
> a method for calculation which gives significantly increased accuracy in
> an automatic fashion. What I would suggest that Nick does is to use
> Henry's method on a carefully selected subset of NMRShiftDB.

In fact, I should have stated more clearly that I'm very much in favor
of having Nick do NMRShiftDB G03 calcs using Henry's method. The stuff
that we've done is just supplemental.

> Stefan says it isn't available. In any case is it Open? I think Henry
> would contend his method would be an advance.

The data are open and partly loaded into NMRShiftDB. I've written to
Warren again (did this a couple of times already) to get the rest.
But again, this is supplemental - let's go for your plan.

>> I myself have been calculating about 2000 Gaussian spectra for
>> NMRShiftDB on a 16-node cluster which came for exactly this purpose with
>> my NMRShiftDB grant.
> 
> Is this published? We don't want to pre-empt you.

No, it is not published and I don't think it will. There was no rigorous
selection of a reasonable starting geometry in my protocol, so I would
have difficulties to justify my data.


> I think this is a good idea and henry has been advocating it but Nick
> doesn't have time to generate conformers. So we would stick with rigid
> molecules.

Ack

> So I'll revise the strategy. The fundamentals are that it must be
> automatic.

Ack


>> > * generate 3D coordinates
> 
> Any suggestions here?

No - our 3D generator is broken at the moment.


>> > The immediate difficulties we can see are:
>> > * not knowing the stereochemistry. *** WHAT IS THE POSITION IN
>> > NMRSHIFTDB? We can filter out anything that has more than one
>> > potential stereocentre.

A lot of structures with stereocenters in NMRShiftDB have undefined
stereochemistry. It would be good to generate all of them in 3D and do
the calculation (in case of E/Z and diastereomers).

>> > * assumptions about completeness of data in NMRShiftDB

Not sure what that means.

>> > * generating initial 3d coordinates. There are several simple
>> approaches:
>> >     - use CDK - I think Christoph had something here?
>> >     - use the 2D coordinates for "flat" molecules
>> >     *** NEW APPROACHES - MUST BE BLUEOBELISK

How about this newly discovered "RDKit" (or so)? See Noel's blog.
Seems to have a BSD license 3D generator.

Regarding the workup of the data: I would like to train our shift
prediction machine learning methods with the GIAO data and see how that
compares to the experimental data.

Cheers,

Chris

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