Toward Quantum-Informed Atom Pairs

In the following research, a new modification of traditional atom pairs is studied. The atom pairs are enriched with values originating from quantum chemistry calculations. A random forest machine learning algorithm is applied to model 10 different properties and biological activities based on different molecular representations, and it is evaluated via repeated cross-validation. The predictive power of modified atom pairs, quantum atom pairs, are compared to the predictive powers of traditional molecular representations known and widely applied in cheminformatics. The root mean squared error (RMSE), R², area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) and balanced accuracy were used to evaluate the predictive power of the applied molecular representations. Research has shown that while performing regression tasks, quantum atom pairs provide better fits to the data than do their precursors.