Chapter 5

Molecular Descriptors for Biological Systems

N. Sukumar

N. Sukumar

Rensselaer Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

Search for more papers by this author
Sourav Das

Sourav Das

Rensselaer Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

Search for more papers by this author
Michael Krein

Michael Krein

Rensselaer Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

Search for more papers by this author
Rahul Godawat

Rahul Godawat

Rensselaer Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

Search for more papers by this author
Inna Vitol

Inna Vitol

Rensselaer Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

Search for more papers by this author
Shekhar Garde

Shekhar Garde

Rensselaer Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

Search for more papers by this author
Kristin P. Bennett

Kristin P. Bennett

Rensselaer Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

Search for more papers by this author
Curt M. Breneman

Curt M. Breneman

Rensselaer Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

Search for more papers by this author
First published: 14 November 2011
Citations: 4

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Why Use Descriptors?

  • Challenges Faced by Molecular Descriptors when Applied to Biological Systems

  • Examples of Descriptors for Biological Systems and Applications to Modeling Problems

  • Summary and Conclusions

  • References

The full text of this article hosted at iucr.org is unavailable due to technical difficulties.