The Chemistry Cartridge adds the SIMILAR operator to SQL. When applied to a SMILES-containing column, rows containing structures which are similar to a given structure are selected. The binary Tanimoto coefficient is used for similarity determination: a value of 1.0 means "identical", 0.0 means "completely dissimliar". The level of similarity to be required is user-adjustable. At high levels (~0.8 or more), this is a fast, robust search type. At low levels (~0.65 or less), the results are not meaningful and result in large answer sets.
This example finds structures at least 0.80 similar to a given structure using svrmgr (rather than sqlplus to show the auxilliary operator score in action. Other examples are also available.
Oracle Server Manager Release 3.1.3.0.0 - Beta (c) Copyright 1997, Oracle Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Oracle8 Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.3.0.0 - Beta With the Partitioning and Objects options PL/SQL Release 8.1.3.0.0 - Beta SVRMGR> Connected. Timing ON COMPOUND_I SCORE(1) SMILES ---------- ---------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5406 0.847058833 CC(=CC=O)C=CC=C(C)C=CC1=C(C)CCCC1(C)C 44930 0.855263174 C1CCC(=CC1)C2=CCCCC2 46634 1.000000000 CC(=CC=CC=C(C)C=CC=C(C)C=CC1=C(C)CCCC1(C)C)C=CC=C(C)C=CC2=C(C)CCCC2(C)C 53509 0.825581372 CC(=CC=O)C=CC1=C(C)CCCC1(C)C 94006 0.837209284 CC(=CCO)C=CC=C(C)C=CC1=C(C)CCCC1(C)C 5 rows selected. Parse 0.00 (Elapsed) 0.00 (CPU) Execute/Fetch 0.97 (Elapsed) 0.00 (CPU) Total 0.97 0.00 Timing OFF SVRMGR> Server Manager complete.
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