Hello:
Greg and Curt your comments are very much appreciated.
Thanks for getting back to me!
Best,
Markus

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:31 PM, Greg Landrum <greg.land...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Markus,
>
> Curt's instincts are dead on: the problem here is the rings.
>
> I'll show the fix and then explain what's going on. You just need to add
> one line to your code:
>
> core = "[a]12[a][a][a][a][a]1[a][a][a]2"
> pattern = Chem.MolFromSmarts(core)
> Chem.GetSSSR(pattern)
> AllChem.Compute2DCoords(pattern)
>
> when I do this, I get the following depiction for "c1(ocn2)c2cccc1":
>
> (The highlighting is due to the substructure match that's done during the
> generation of coordinates).
>
> So why is this necessary?
> The code that generates 2D coordinates uses information about the size of
> ring systems in the molecule as part of the coordinate generation. If no
> ring information is present (which is true of molecules generated from
> SMARTS since they are not fully sanitized on construction) then the code
> calls FastFindRings(). This function is perfectly capable of identifying
> all ring atoms and bonds, but it isn't very good at getting ring sizes
> correct for fused systems (it finds rings, but not the smallest rings). The
> consequences are the badly generated coordinates for fused ring systems
> that you were seeing.
>
> I think the current behavior of the code "isn't really ideal": the
> coordinate generation code should call the SSSR algorithm in these cases so
> that it can generate better coordinates. I'll take a look at the code and
> think about changing it.
>
> As an aside: if you're puzzled by the behavior of AllChem.
> GenerateDepictionMatching2DStructure() you can always just take a look at
> the drawing of the query molecule itself. It's not always the most
> informative depiction when it comes to what the atom and bond queries are,
> but you at least will see the coordinates.
>
> A second aside: the molecule depictions in that notebook indicate that you
> are stuck using the fallback drawing code, which creates fairly ugly
> pictures. You can get better drawings by either installing cairo and
> pycairo (in which case the code should automatically use those) or telling
> the drawing code to use SVG for the rendering:
>
> from rdkit.Chem.Draw import IPythonConsole
> IPythonConsole.ipython_useSVG=True
>
> It really does make the drawings a lot better.
>
> I hope this helps,
> -greg
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Markus Metz <metm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all:
>>
>> I am trying to perform a 2D alignment of molecules by using a pattern for
>> which I am using Compute2DCoords.
>>
>> If I use a smarts string matching napthalene the 2D depiction is as one
>> would expect.
>> However, if I am switching to a 5,6 aromatic smarts pattern the matched
>> benzoxazol the 2D structure looks rather unusual.
>>
>> Is there a way to match the 5,6 with the 6,6 pattern behavior?
>>
>> Any hint is very much appreciated,
>>
>> Markus
>>
>> P.S. a work book is attached.
>>
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