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  • Computational toxicology
  • Drug discovery and development
  • cheminformatics

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  • Substructural alerts (SA) are crucial for drug development and toxicity assessment.
  • Numerous automatic substructure extraction tools exist, but their comparative performance is unclear.
  • Evaluating these tools is essential for reliable drug safety predictions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To comprehensively analyze and compare seven popular substructure extraction tools.
  • To identify the optimal tool for substructure extraction in toxicity evaluation.
  • To assess the impact of substructures on quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models.

Main Methods:

  • Evaluation of seven tools (Bioalerts, KRFP, MoSS, PySmash_circular, PySmash_group, PySmash_path, SARpy) using 43 toxicity datasets.
  • Comparison of extracted substructures, predictive models, extraction efficiency, and QSAR model enhancement.
  • Analysis focused on substructure information, predictive accuracy, and computational performance.

Main Results:

  • PySmash_circular demonstrated the best overall performance, excelling in information carrying and rule-based models.
  • PySmash_path and Bioalerts showed strong results but were less efficient.
  • SARpy yielded the best predictive rule-based models but focused narrowly on precision.
  • All tested substructures improved QSAR model interpretability and recognition of toxic compounds.

Conclusions:

  • PySmash_circular is recommended for substructure extraction in toxicity prediction.
  • A benchmark substructure set for 43 toxicity endpoints is publicly released.
  • This work aids in selecting optimal tools and advancing computational toxicology research.