Visualization of Chemical Databases Using the Singular Value Decomposition and Truncated-Newton Minimization





We describe a rapid algorithm for visualizing large chemical databases in a low-dimensional space (2D or 3D) as a first step in chemical database analyses and drug design applications. The compounds in the database are described as vectors in the hight-dimensional space of chemical descriptors. The algorithm is based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) combined with a minimization procedure implemented with the efficient truncated-Newton program package (TNPACK). Numerical experiments show that the algorithm achieves an accuracy in 2D for scaled datasets of around 30 to 46%, reflecting the percentage of pairwise distance segments that lie within 10% of original distance values. The low percentages can be made close to 100% with projections onto a ten-dimensional space. The 2D and 3D projections, in particular, can be efficiently generated and easily visalized and analyzed with respect to clustering patterns of the compounds.



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