Representing Surface Properties of Molecules As an Alignment-Free Spectrum for Cheminformatics

Alireza Tehrani\(^{1}\), Valerii Chuiko\(^{2}\), Fanwang Meng\(^{2}\), Paul Ayers\(^{2}\), and Farnaz Heidar-Zadeh\(^{1}\)

\(^{1}\) Queen's University
\(^{2}\) McMaster University

The use of a spectrum is ubiquitous across chemistry as it is used to correlate chemical structure to an interpretable signal. On the other hand, molecular surfaces are a common representation of a molecule as certain chemical concepts are thought to occur on the boundaries of a molecule. Motivated by signal processing and computational geometry, we represent a function on the molecular surface as a spectrum that encodes information about the geometry of the surface and its properties. This poster shares our ideas and results for developing alignment-free and property-specific molecular similarity measures for predicting molecular properties in cheminformatics.

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