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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 125, 2017
21st International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers (CSCC 2017)
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Article Number | 04001 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Computers | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201712504001 | |
Published online | 04 October 2017 |
Free and Open Source Chemistry Software in Research of Quantitative Structure-Toxicity Relationship of Pesticides
1 Faculty of Agriculture, J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Vladimira Preloga, Osijek, Croatia
2 Department of Chemistry, Vidya Bharati Mahavidyalaya, Camp, CK Naidu Road, Amravati, 444 602, Maharashtra, India
* Corresponding author: vrastija@pfos.hr
Pesticides are toxic chemicals aimed for the destroying pest on crops. Numerous data evidence about toxicity of pesticides on aquatic organisms. Since pesticides with similar properties tend to have similar biological activities, toxicity may be predicted from structure. Their structure feature and properties are encoded my means of molecular descriptors. Molecular descriptors can capture quite simple two-dimensional (2D) chemical structures to highly complex three-dimensional (3D) chemical structures. Quantitative structure-toxicity relationship (QSTR) method uses linear regression analyses for correlation toxicity of chemical with their structural feature using molecular descriptors. Molecular descriptors were calculated using open source software PaDEL and in-house built PyMOL plugin (PyDescriptor). PyDescriptor is a new script implemented with the commonly used visualization software PyMOL for calculation of a large and diverse set of easily interpretable molecular descriptors encoding pharmacophoric patterns and atomic fragments. PyDescriptor has several advantages like free and open source, can work on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOS). QSTR method allows prediction of toxicity of pesticides without experimental assay. In the present work, QSTR analysis for toxicity of a dataset of mixtures of 5 classes of pesticides comprising has been performed.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017
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