QSAR Modeling: Where Have You Been? Where Are You Going To?

Artem Cherkasov, Eugene N. Muratov, Denis Fourches, Alexandre Varnek, Igor I. Baskin, Mark Cronin, John Dearden, Paola Gramatica, Yvonne C. Martin, Roberto Todeschini, Viviana Consonni, Victor E. Kuz'min (+8 others)
2014 Journal of Medicinal Chemistry  
Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship modeling is one of the major computational tools employed in medicinal chemistry. However, throughout its entire history it has drawn both praise and criticism concerning its reliability, limitations, successes, and failures. In this paper, we discuss: (i) the development and evolution of QSAR; (ii) the current trends, unsolved problems, and pressing challenges; and (iii) several novel and emerging applications of QSAR modeling. Throughout this
more » ... sion, we provide guidelines for QSAR development, validation, and application, which are summarized in best practices for building rigorously validated and externally predictive QSAR models. We hope that this Perspective will help communications between computational and experimental chemists towards collaborative development and use of QSAR models. We also believe that the guidelines presented here will help journal editors and reviewers apply more stringent scientific standards to manuscripts reporting new QSAR studies, as well as encourage the use of high quality, validated QSARs for regulatory decision making.
doi:10.1021/jm4004285 pmid:24351051 pmcid:PMC4074254 fatcat:bzjqonekb5gkhojb2wpcvyn2l4