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graphpancake: a Python package for representing organic molecules as molecular graphs utilizing electronic structure

Sneha Sil¹, Mark A Maskeri¹, Karl A Scheidt²

¹Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.

Journal of Cheminformatics

|April 1, 2026

Summary

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Graphpancake enhances drug discovery by converting quantum mechanics data into molecular graphs. This enables more accurate prediction of quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) using machine learning models.

Keywords:

Density functional theory Graph neural networks Molecular graphs Python Random forests

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Area of Science:

Computational chemistry
Cheminformatics
Drug discovery

Background:

Computational methods are vital for early-stage drug discovery, supplementing high-throughput screening.
Advanced machine learning requires novel ways to process complex molecular data, including quantum chemical information.
Graph-based molecular representations are crucial for leveraging physicochemical properties in predictive modeling.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce graphpancake, an open-source Python package for generating molecular graphs from quantum mechanical calculations.
To facilitate the integration of quantum chemical data into cheminformatics pipelines for enhanced predictive modeling.
To demonstrate the utility of quantum-enriched molecular graphs in predicting quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR).

Main Methods:

Developed graphpancake to translate density functional theory (DFT) and post-Hartree-Fock (HF) wavefunction data into molecular graphs.
Implemented hierarchical graph types with varying feature complexity and a command-line utility.
Curated regression and classification datasets from existing literature for model testing.

Main Results:

Utilized random forest and message passing neural network architectures to evaluate graphpancake's performance.
Demonstrated that quantum-enriched features from graphpancake led to higher accuracy in QSAR prediction (0.3-0.5 higher R² values) compared to SMILES-generated features.
Validated the package's effectiveness on diverse chemical datasets.

Conclusions:

Graphpancake provides a valuable tool for cheminformatics by generating quantum chemical graph representations.
The use of quantum-enriched features significantly improves the accuracy of predictive models in drug discovery.
The open-source availability and comprehensive documentation of graphpancake promote its adoption in computational chemistry research.