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Table 1 Timings for common cheminformatics tasks using LICSS.

From: LICSS - a chemical spreadsheet in microsoft excel

Dataset

Operation

Timing (m:s)

Hits

[1]

SSS (Sub Structure Search) with n1cnccc1 (Smarts matching)

0:13

76

[1]

SSS with pyrimidine (sketcher)

0:05

76

[1]

SSS with n1cnccc1 (Smarts matching/fingerprint pre-search)

0:04

76

[1]

SSS with pyrimidine (sketcher/fingerprint pre-search)

0:03

76

[1]

Fingerprint generation

0:13

 

[1]

RGroupTable generation with Pyrimidine as core (sketcher)

0:06 (batch)

0:05 (formula)

 

[1]

Jarvis Patrick clustering (generating 737 clusters)

0:19

 

[1]

Sammon Map coordinate calculation

0:28

 

[1]

Descriptor calculation (XLogP)

0:08

 

[2]

SSS with Cc1cncnc1 (Smarts matching)

5:32

349

[2]

SSS with 5-MePyrimidine (sketcher)

1:55

486 (includes cc1cncnc1 as well as Cc1cncnc1)

[2]

SSS with Cc1cncnc1 (Smarts matching/fingerprint pre-search)

0:21

349

[2]

SSS with 5-MePyrimidine (sketcher/fingerprint pre-search)

0:13

486

[2]

Fingerprint generation

5:01

 

[2]

RGroupTable generation (on Pyrimidine subset with Pyrimidine as core; sketcher)

0:28

 

[2]

Descriptor calculation (XLogP)

4:37 (batch)

4:22 (formula)

 
  1. Times refer to a 2.13 GHz laptop with 4 GB of memory running Vista/Microsoft Excel 2007.
  2. Two datasets were used: [1]: a set containing ~1.6 k pesticidal compounds, [2]: a set containing ~27 k anti-malarial compounds.