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.

Cc1noc(NS(=O)(=O)c2ccc(N)cc2)c1C

Oracle Server Manager Release 3.1.3.0.0 - Beta

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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                                                                          
---------- ----------- -----------------------------------------------
     64789 0.812765956 Cc1noc(NS(=O)(=O)c2ccc(N=Nc3ccc(N)nc3N)cc2)c1C
     98540 0.841409683 Cc1noc(NS(=O)(=O)c2ccc(NC(=O)NCCCl)cc2)c1C
    112391 1.000000000 Cc1noc(NS(=O)(=O)c2ccc(N)cc2)c1C
3 rows selected.
Parse             0.00 (Elapsed)     0.00 (CPU)
Execute/Fetch     0.92 (Elapsed)     0.00 (CPU)
Total             0.92               0.00
Timing                          OFF
SVRMGR> 
Server Manager complete.