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Frequently asked questions regarding small molecules, ICM-Chemistry tools and MolCart

23.7.1 How do I generate the hostid for my MolCart license?


23.7.2 How do I connect to Molcart?


When you unpack the MolCart distribution from www.molsoft.com/support you will be given a unique number (which you need to send to support@molsoft.com to get a MolCart license) along with MolCart login details such as Server Name, UserName and Password.

Once you have the MolCart distribution loaded you can connect to MolCart by going to Tools/Chemistry/Connect to Molcart

23.7.3 How can I download the MolCart vendor compounds provided by MolSoft?


MolCart Compound Database is an up-to-date collection of vendor compound databases. This database is divided into three collections:

Each collection consists of two components:

The Molcart Compounds can be uploaded to a relational database using MolCart and can be further enhanced and annotated with the Molsoft ICM-Chemistry tools.

The MolCart compounds can be downloaded from http://www.molsoft.com/screening.html then to unpack them type:


zcat vendor.gz | mysql -h<hostname> -u<user> -p<password> molcart_database_name 

23.7.4 I have a database in MolCart and I want to save it in SDF format - how can I do this?


In the terminal window type:


write molcart table="molcart_table_name" "name_of_sdf"

23.7.5 How do I perform a chemical search


You can search MolCart or Chemical Tables using the ICM Chemical Search Window. This window can be displayed by going to:

OR

OR

OR

23.7.6 How do I make a new molcart database from a query search?


To write the data from a query to a new MolCart database table use the Add to DB option in the Chemical Search window.

23.7.7 How can I draw small molecules?


Use the molecule editor

Chemistry/Molecular Editor

or look for the ICM molecular editor button at the top of the graphical user interface.

23.7.8 How do I read in a small molecule from ISIS draw and convert it to 3D?


NOTE: There is no need to use an external chemistry drawing software when you can use the ICM molecular editor which is fully integrated into the ICM software.

23.7.9 How can I change the layout of a chemical table?


To change the layout of a chemical table (eg converting a table to grid view).

23.7.10 How can I convert a chemical in a chemical table into 3D?


To do this:

23.7.11 I have a small molecule which already has the 3D coordinates defined. How can I load the molecule and not optimize it so as to preserve the assigned 3D coordinates?


23.7.12 I have a chemical table displayed - how can I add columns of chemical properties associated with each chemical in my table?


To read a chemical table into ICM:

To add a chemical property to the table.

23.7.13 I have a small molecule displayed in 3D in a loaded PDB file. How can I extract this molecule into an ICM Chemical Table?


You can extract a ligand from an ICM object or PDB file by:

23.7.14 What is considered a good druglikeness value?


When building a molecule in the ICM Molecular Editor (Tools/Chemistry) properties such as druglikeness are calculated on the fly. The properties can also be added by inserting a column into a chemical table (right click on column header/ insert column/ Function = Chemical). These values should be used as a guide and druglikeness is a prediction based on drug-like properties. A druglikeness value less than zero indicates that the compound may have some non-drug-like properties.

23.7.15 I do not see the chemical property monitor in the molecular editor. Where is it?


If you do not see the chemical monitor in the ICM Molecule Editor - Go to:

23.7.16 How do I perform a text query on a database in MolCart?


To perform a text search an index needs to be made on the field you wish to search. To do this:

NOTE: Queries can also be made in the window above the text search window (see above). If you right click you will see fields that you can fill in and use conditional based queries.

23.7.17 How to convert SMILES strings to 2D


See How To section.

23.7.18 Is there a way to build a classification model using the APF output?


_setAPFparams is in the distribution since 3.6-0;

The usage:

icm _apf3Dqsar train=trainingSet.sdf activity=LogIC50 table=testSet.sdf

Training and test set compounds should be all pre-aligned, for example by aligning training set actives using APF multiple chemical alignment, and then superimposing the test compounds onto aligned actives using APF superposition. Any external alignment method can be used as well. The field containing activity data in the training set SDF is specified by activity= argument.

The script also can take alignments in icm multiple object format *.ob, in which case SDFs are only used for input/output of activity data and can be just 2D:

icm _apf3Dqsar train=trainingSet.sdf align=trainingSet3Daligned.ob activity=LogIC50 predict=testSet3Daligned.ob table=testSet.sdf

The results are written to testSet_predict.sdf output file. Some statistics is reported along the way. If testSet.sdf contains activity (i.e. LogIC50) column like the training set, RMSD and R2 will be reported as well.

23.7.19 How to rotate a 2D chemical sketch so it fits nicely in its cell in a chemical table?


See this description in the command line manual:

http://www.molsoft.com/man/icm-commands.html#make-flat

23.7.20 How do I remove unwanted metal and counterions from an SDF file?


You can do this in the menu option Chemistry/Standardize and check the remove salt option.


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