Application of pattern recognition to structure-activity problems: Use of minimal spanning tree |
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Authors: | Yoshikatsu Miyashita Yoshimasa Takahashi Yasuhiko Yotsui Hidetsugu Abe Shin-Ichi Sasaki |
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Affiliation: | School of Materials Science, Toyohashi University of Technology Tempaku, Toyohashi,Aichi 440 Japan |
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Abstract: | A graph-theoretical algorithm based on the minimal spanning tree (MST) is applied to structure—activity problems. The method is helpful in interpreting the results of cluster analysis, and becomes useful by combining with the mapping method that illustrates approximations of a multidimensional data structure. The antibacterial spectra of cephalosporins are analyzed by the MST approach and a linear mapping method. The main diameter obtained by MST gives the representative data set and clarifies the substituent effect on the antibacterial spectra. Relations between the central nervous system activity of benzodiazepine derivatives and their physicochemical parameters are also analyzed by MST and nonlinear mapping methods. These results for cephalosporins and benzodiazepines prove that MST is very useful in understanding the position of compounds in feature space and their activities. |
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