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QSPR/QSAR: State-of-Art, Weirdness, the Future

Ability of quantitative structure–property/activity relationships (QSPRs/QSARs) to serve for epistemological processes in natural sciences is discussed. Some weirdness of QSPR/QSAR state-of-art is listed. There are some contradictions in the research results in this area. Sometimes, these should be...

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Autores principales: Toropov, Andrey A., Toropova, Alla P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7143984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32178379
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25061292
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description Ability of quantitative structure–property/activity relationships (QSPRs/QSARs) to serve for epistemological processes in natural sciences is discussed. Some weirdness of QSPR/QSAR state-of-art is listed. There are some contradictions in the research results in this area. Sometimes, these should be classified as paradoxes or weirdness. These points are often ignored. Here, these are listed and briefly commented. In addition, hypotheses on the future evolution of the QSPR/QSAR theory and practice are suggested. In particular, the possibility of extending of the QSPR/QSAR problematic by searching for the “statistical similarity” of different endpoints is suggested and illustrated by an example for relatively “distanced each from other” endpoints, namely (i) mutagenicity, (ii) anticancer activity, and (iii) blood–brain barrier.
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spelling pubmed-71439842020-04-13 QSPR/QSAR: State-of-Art, Weirdness, the Future Toropov, Andrey A. Toropova, Alla P. Molecules Review Ability of quantitative structure–property/activity relationships (QSPRs/QSARs) to serve for epistemological processes in natural sciences is discussed. Some weirdness of QSPR/QSAR state-of-art is listed. There are some contradictions in the research results in this area. Sometimes, these should be classified as paradoxes or weirdness. These points are often ignored. Here, these are listed and briefly commented. In addition, hypotheses on the future evolution of the QSPR/QSAR theory and practice are suggested. In particular, the possibility of extending of the QSPR/QSAR problematic by searching for the “statistical similarity” of different endpoints is suggested and illustrated by an example for relatively “distanced each from other” endpoints, namely (i) mutagenicity, (ii) anticancer activity, and (iii) blood–brain barrier. MDPI 2020-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7143984/ /pubmed/32178379 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25061292 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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