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A Psychophysics Paradigm for the Collection and Analysis of Similarity Judgments

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iSIM: instant similarity.

Kenneth López-Pérez¹, Taewon D Kim¹, Ramón Alain Miranda-Quintana¹

¹Department of Chemistry and Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida Gainesville Florida 32611 USA quintana@chem.ufl.edu.

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We introduce iSIM (instant similarity), a novel method for calculating molecular similarity. iSIM efficiently computes average molecular similarity for multiple molecules simultaneously, overcoming the quadratic scaling limitations of traditional pairwise comparisons.

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Area of Science:

Cheminformatics
Computational Chemistry
Bioinformatics

Background:

Quantifying molecular similarity is fundamental in cheminformatics.
Current methods rely on pairwise comparisons, leading to quadratic computational complexity.
This inefficiency limits scalability for large molecular datasets.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a computationally efficient method for calculating average molecular similarity.
To introduce iSIM (instant similarity) as an exact alternative to pairwise comparisons.
To demonstrate iSIM's applicability across various cheminformatics tasks.

Main Methods:

Developed the mathematical framework for iSIM.
Implemented iSIM for simultaneous comparison of multiple molecules.
Utilized binary fingerprints and real-value descriptors for molecular representation.

Main Results:

iSIM provides exact average similarity values, identical to traditional pairwise methods.
Achieved significant reduction in computational resource requirements.
Demonstrated iSIM's effectiveness in chemical sampling, visualization, diversity selection, and clustering.

Conclusions:

iSIM offers a computationally efficient and exact solution for calculating average molecular similarity.
The method overcomes the quadratic scaling limitations of existing approaches.
iSIM has broad applications in advancing cheminformatics and drug discovery.