At 13:09 17/09/2007, Sulev Sild wrote:
>On Sep 16, peter murray-rust wrote:
> > We have a real need to generate structures from 1-D connection tables
> > and there is no tried and trusted Blue Obelisk coordinate generator
> > (e.g. we use CDK for 2D coordinates and have run it over 200,000 
> structures).
> >
> > Here are the possibilities:
>
>We also face this problem routinely while doing QSAR/QSPR modelling. Usually
>we do it by workflows looking like the following:

Thanks,


>- generate crude 3D geometry with MOLGEO (from Codessa Pro software package)
>- perform conformational space analysis with macromodel

Obviously it is more expensive if we need conformers. I am fudging 
that by only looking at molecules which are fairly rigid. It could 
actually be very valuable to store a few conformers for each new 
structure. For macroscopic properties such as NMR or IR we probably 
don't need anything less than 1% - that's a few kcal

>- geometry optimisation with MOPAC

This scales as ca N^3 or N^4 and it may be useful to do parts of 
large molecules separately.

>Some steps there can be computationally quite demanding when large data
>sets are dealt with. We have currently a Chemomentum project running to have
>this kind of workflows running on a computational grids. We are pretty much
>interested to have this kind of workflows performed with open source
>software, to have this kind of workflows accessible for everyone.

P.


>Best wishes,
>Sulev
>
>--
>Dr. Sulev Sild                                     e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Intitute of Chemistry, University of Tartu          phone: (+372) 7375-254
>Jakobi 2, Tartu, Estonia, 51014                       fax: (+372) 7375-264

Peter Murray-Rust
Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics
University of Cambridge,
Lensfield Road,  Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069 


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