Hi Leon,

You can convert the tanimoto distance to similarity, but the formula is:
Similarity = 1 - Distance

Best,
-greg


On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 3:21 AM topgunhaides <sunzhi....@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> A quick question:
>
> RDKit computes the "Shape Tanimoto distance" by calling the
> "ShapeTanimotoDist".
> I assume that similarities and distances can be interconverted using the
> following equation?
>
> Shape Tanimoto similarity = 1 / (1 + Shape Tanimoto distance)
>
> Correct?  Thank you!
>
> Best,
> Leon
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