Get the best from substructure mining

The chemical information that is present in a set of compounds is rarely fully exploited. This is mostly because no descriptor set can capture all biologically important features. As a result, valuable chemical knowledge can thus stay hidden from hypothesis-based drug design. The simplest form of a structure-activity relationship (SAR) is a substructure that predisposes compounds towards reduced or increased biological activity. Such simple patterns should not be missed during drug design.