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Fully Autonomous Characterization and Data Collection from Crystals of Biological Macromolecules
Published on: March 22, 2019
Two models to estimate the density of organic cocrystals
Jun-Hong Zhou1, Li Zhao2, Liang-Wei Shi3
1Department of Computer Chemistry and Cheminformatics, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences 345 LingLing Road Shanghai 200032 China zhoujh8@sioc.ac.cn.
Abstract:
Two models for predicting the density of organic cocrystals composed of energetic organic cocrystals and general organic cocrystals containing nitro groups were obtained. Sixty organic cocrystals in which the ratio of component molecules is 1 : 1 were studied as the dataset. Model-I was based on the artificial neural network (ANN) to predict the density of the cocrystals, which used (six) input parameters of the component molecules. The root mean square error (RMSE) of the ANN model was 0.033, the mean absolute error (MAE) was 0.023, and the coefficient of determination (R 2) was 0.920. Model-II used the surface electrostatic potential correction method to predict the cocrystal density. The corresponding RMSE, MAE, and R 2 were 0.055, 0.045, and 0.716, respectively. The performance of Model-I is better than that of Model-II.
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