Cheminformatics toolkits

Cheminformatics toolkits are software development kits that allow cheminformaticians to develop custom computer applications for use in virtual screening, chemical database mining, and structure-activity studies.^[1]^[2] Toolkits are often used for experimentation with new methodologies. Their most important functions deal with the manipulation of chemical structures and comparisons between structures. Programmatic access is provided to properties of individual bonds and atoms.

Functionality[edit]

Toolkits provide the following functionality:

Read and save structures in various chemistry file formats.
Determine if one structure is a substructure of another (substructure matching).
Determine if two structures are equal (exact matching).
Identification of substructures common to structures in a set (maximal common substructure, MCS).
Disassemble molecules, splitting into fragments.
Assemble molecules from elements or submolecules.
Apply reactions on input reactant structures, resulting in output of reaction product structures.
Generate molecular fingerprints. Fingerprints are bit-vectors where individual bits correspond to the presence or absence of structural features. The most important use of fingerprints is in indexing of chemistry databases.

List of cheminformatics toolkits[edit]

Name	License	APIs	Home Page	Notes
CDK	Open source	Java	https://cdk.github.io/	^[3]^[4]^[5]
ChemmineR	Open source	R, C++	http://manuals.bioinformatics.ucr.edu/home/chemminer	^[6]^[7]
Enalos KNIME nodes	Open source	KNIME	http://tech.knime.org/community/enalos-nodes	^[8]
Enalos+ KNIME nodes	Proprietary	KNIME	http://enalosplus.novamechanics.com/	^[9]
Indigo	Open source	C, C#, Java, Python	http://lifescience.opensource.epam.com/indigo
MolEngine	Proprietary	.NET	http://www.scilligence.com	^{[permanent dead link]}
Molecular Operating Environment (MOE)	Proprietary	Scientific Vector Language	https://web.archive.org/web/20160909172415/http://www.chemcomp.com/MOE-Cheminformatics_and_QSAR.htm
OpenBabel	Open source	C, Python, Ruby	http://openbabel.org/	,^[10]^[11]
Helium	Open source	C++	https://web.archive.org/web/20140407082845/http://www.moldb.net/helium.html
RDKit	Open source	Python, C++, Java, Knime	http://www.rdkit.org/
Rcpi	Open source	R	https://bioconductor.org/packages/Rcpi	^[12]
frowns	Open source	Python	http://frowns.sourceforge.net/
OUCH	Open source	Haskell	http://www.pharmash.com/posts/2010-08-02-ouch.html
chemf	Open source	Scala	https://github.com/stefan-hoeck/chemf
3D-e-Chem	Open source	Python, Java, Knime	https://3d-e-chem.github.io/	^[13]^[14]
SMSD	Creative Commons Attribution	Java	http://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/software/SMSD/	^[15]
Accord SDK	Proprietary	VBA, .NET, PL/SQL	http://accelrys.com/products/datasheets/accord-software-development-kit.pdf
CACTVS	Proprietary, free for academia, personal use, public web services	Tcl, C, C++, Python, Knime	http://www.xemistry.com/academic
Daylight	Proprietary	C, C++, Java, Fortran	http://www.daylight.com/products/toolkit.html
OEChem	Proprietary, free for academia	C++, Python, C#, Java	http://eyesopen.com/
Marvin, JChem	Proprietary, free for academia	Java, .NET, Javascript	http://www.chemaxon.com
ChemDoodle API	Proprietary	Java, Javascript	http://www.ichemlabs.com
PerlMol	Open source	Perl	https://web.archive.org/web/20120315121757/http://www.perlmol.org/
ADMET Predictor, MedChem Studio, MedChem Designer	Proprietary, free for qualifying academics	C++, KNIME, Pipeline Pilot	http://www.simulations-plus.com
CDD Vault	Proprietary, free for CDD Public read-only data	CDD Vault	https://www.collaborativedrug.com/cdd-vault	^[16]
MolecularGraph.jl	MIT License	Julia	https://github.com/mojaie/MolecularGraph.jl

References[edit]

↑ Jean-Loup Faulon; Andreas Bender (April 2010). Handbook of Chemoinformatics Algorithms. Chapman & Hall. ISBN 978-1420082920. Search this book on
↑ Johann Gasteiger (November 2003). Chemoinformatics. Wiley-VCH. ISBN 3527306811. Search this book on
↑ Steinbeck C, C.; Han Y; Kuhn S; Horlacher O; Luttmann E; Willighagen E (2003). "The Chemistry Development Kit". J Chemical Inf. Comput. Sci. 43 (2): 493–500. doi:10.1021/ci025584y. PMC 4901983. PMID 12653513.
↑ Steinbeck C, Christoph; Hoppe C.; Kuhn S.; Floris M.; Guha R.; Willighagen E.L. (2006). "Recent Developments of the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) - An Open-Source Java Library for Chemo- and Bioinformatics". Curr. Pharm. Des. 12 (17): 2111–2120. doi:10.2174/138161206777585274. hdl:2066/35445. PMID 16796559.
↑ Willighagen, Egon L.; Mayfield, John W.; Alvarsson, Jonathan; Berg, Arvid; Carlsson, Lars; Jeliazkova, Nina; Kuhn, Stefan; Pluskal, Tomáš; Rojas-Chertó, Miquel; Spjuth, Ola; Torrance, Gilleain; Evelo, Chris T.; Guha, Rajarshi; Steinbeck, Christoph (December 2017). "The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) v2.0: atom typing, depiction, molecular formulas, and substructure searching". Journal of Cheminformatics. 9 (1): 33. doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4. PMID 29086040. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
↑ Cao, Y; Charisi, A; Cheng, LC; Jiang, T; Girke, T (2008). "ChemmineR: A Compound Mining Framework for R." Bioinformatics. 24 (15): 1733–1734. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn307. PMC 2638865. PMID 18596077.
↑ Wang, Y; Backman, TW; Horan, K; Girke, T (2013). "fmcsR: Mismatch Tolerant Maximum Common Substructure Searching in R.". Bioinformatics. 29 (21): 2792–4. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btt475. PMID 23962615.
↑ Requires Knime (http://www.knime.org/)
↑ Requires KNIME (http://www.knime.org/)
↑ reads and writes all chemical file formats.
↑ O’Boyle N; Banck M; James C; Morley C; Vandermeersch T; Hutchison G (2011). "Open babel: an open chemical". Journal of Cheminformatics. 3 (33): 33. doi:10.1186/1758-2946-3-33. PMC 3198950. PMID 21982300.
↑ Cao DS, Xiao N, Xu QS, Chen AF (Jan 2015). "Rcpi: R/Bioconductor package to generate various descriptors of proteins, compounds and their interactions". Bioinformatics. 31 (2): 279–281. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu624. PMID 25246429.
↑ McGuire R, Verhoeven S, Vass M, Vriend G, de Esch IJ, Lusher SJ, Leurs R, Ridder L, Kooistra AJ, Ritschel T, de Graaf C (2017). "3D-e-Chem-VM: Structural cheminformatics research infrastructure in a freely available Virtual Machine". J. Chem. Inf. Model. 57 (2): 115–121. doi:10.1021/acs.jcim.6b00686. PMC 5342320. PMID 28125221.
↑ Kooistra AJ, Vass M, McGuire R, Leurs R, de Esch IJ, Vriend G, Verhoeven S, de Graaf C (2018). "3D-e-Chem: Structural Cheminformatics Workflows for Computer-Aided Drug Discovery". ChemMedChem. 13 (6): 614–626. doi:10.1002/cmdc.201700754. PMC 5900740. PMID 29337438.
↑ S. Asad Rahman, Syed; M. Bashton; G. L. Holliday; R. Schrader; J. M. Thornton (2009). "Small Molecule Subgraph Detector (SMSD) Toolkit". Journal of Cheminformatics. 1 (12): 12. doi:10.1186/1758-2946-1-12. PMC 2820491. PMID 20298518.
↑ Novel web-based tools combining chemistry informatics, biology and social networks for drug discovery. Hohman M, Gregory K, Chibale K, Smith PJ, Ekins S, Bunin B Drug Discov Today. 2009 Mar;14(5-6):261-70.

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[1] Jean-Loup Faulon; Andreas Bender (April 2010). Handbook of Chemoinformatics Algorithms. Chapman & Hall. ISBN 978-1420082920. Search this book on

[2] Johann Gasteiger (November 2003). Chemoinformatics. Wiley-VCH. ISBN 3527306811. Search this book on

[3] Steinbeck C, C.; Han Y; Kuhn S; Horlacher O; Luttmann E; Willighagen E (2003). "The Chemistry Development Kit". J Chemical Inf. Comput. Sci. 43 (2): 493–500. doi:10.1021/ci025584y. PMC 4901983. PMID 12653513.

[4] Steinbeck C, Christoph; Hoppe C.; Kuhn S.; Floris M.; Guha R.; Willighagen E.L. (2006). "Recent Developments of the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) - An Open-Source Java Library for Chemo- and Bioinformatics". Curr. Pharm. Des. 12 (17): 2111–2120. doi:10.2174/138161206777585274. hdl:2066/35445. PMID 16796559.

[5] Willighagen, Egon L.; Mayfield, John W.; Alvarsson, Jonathan; Berg, Arvid; Carlsson, Lars; Jeliazkova, Nina; Kuhn, Stefan; Pluskal, Tomáš; Rojas-Chertó, Miquel; Spjuth, Ola; Torrance, Gilleain; Evelo, Chris T.; Guha, Rajarshi; Steinbeck, Christoph (December 2017). "The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) v2.0: atom typing, depiction, molecular formulas, and substructure searching". Journal of Cheminformatics. 9 (1): 33. doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4. PMID 29086040. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)

[6] Cao, Y; Charisi, A; Cheng, LC; Jiang, T; Girke, T (2008). "ChemmineR: A Compound Mining Framework for R." Bioinformatics. 24 (15): 1733–1734. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn307. PMC 2638865. PMID 18596077.

[7] Wang, Y; Backman, TW; Horan, K; Girke, T (2013). "fmcsR: Mismatch Tolerant Maximum Common Substructure Searching in R.". Bioinformatics. 29 (21): 2792–4. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btt475. PMID 23962615.

[8] Requires Knime (http://www.knime.org/)

[9] Requires KNIME (http://www.knime.org/)

[10] reads and writes all chemical file formats.

[11] O’Boyle N; Banck M; James C; Morley C; Vandermeersch T; Hutchison G (2011). "Open babel: an open chemical". Journal of Cheminformatics. 3 (33): 33. doi:10.1186/1758-2946-3-33. PMC 3198950. PMID 21982300.

[pmid25246429-12] Cao DS, Xiao N, Xu QS, Chen AF (Jan 2015). "Rcpi: R/Bioconductor package to generate various descriptors of proteins, compounds and their interactions". Bioinformatics. 31 (2): 279–281. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu624. PMID 25246429.

[McGuire_2017-13] McGuire R, Verhoeven S, Vass M, Vriend G, de Esch IJ, Lusher SJ, Leurs R, Ridder L, Kooistra AJ, Ritschel T, de Graaf C (2017). "3D-e-Chem-VM: Structural cheminformatics research infrastructure in a freely available Virtual Machine". J. Chem. Inf. Model. 57 (2): 115–121. doi:10.1021/acs.jcim.6b00686. PMC 5342320. PMID 28125221.

[Kooistra_2018-14] Kooistra AJ, Vass M, McGuire R, Leurs R, de Esch IJ, Vriend G, Verhoeven S, de Graaf C (2018). "3D-e-Chem: Structural Cheminformatics Workflows for Computer-Aided Drug Discovery". ChemMedChem. 13 (6): 614–626. doi:10.1002/cmdc.201700754. PMC 5900740. PMID 29337438.

[15] S. Asad Rahman, Syed; M. Bashton; G. L. Holliday; R. Schrader; J. M. Thornton (2009). "Small Molecule Subgraph Detector (SMSD) Toolkit". Journal of Cheminformatics. 1 (12): 12. doi:10.1186/1758-2946-1-12. PMC 2820491. PMID 20298518.

[16] Novel web-based tools combining chemistry informatics, biology and social networks for drug discovery. Hohman M, Gregory K, Chibale K, Smith PJ, Ekins S, Bunin B Drug Discov Today. 2009 Mar;14(5-6):261-70.

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