Research Article

Exploring QSAR for Antimalarial Activities and Drug Distribution within Blood of a Series of 4-Aminoquinoline Drugs Using Genetic-MLR

Table 3

Brief description of molecular descriptors used in the different modeling approaches.

GETAWAY descriptors
 H4uH autocorrelation of lag 4/unweighted
 HATS5uleverage-weighted autocorrelation of lag 5/unweighted
 R2u+R maximal autocorrelation of lag 2/unweighted
 R8u+R maximal autocorrelation of lag 8/unweighted
 R3mR autocorrelation of lag 3/weighted by atomic masses
 R4m+R maximal autocorrelation of lag 4/weighted by atomic masses

3D-MoRSE descriptors
 Mor16u3D-MoRSE—signal 16/unweighted
 Mor06m3D-MoRSE—signal 06/weighted by atomic masses
 Mor24m3D-MoRSE—signal 24/weighted by atomic masses
 Mor32v3D-MoRSE—signal 32/weighted by atomic van der Waals volumes

RDF descriptors
 RDF020uRadial Distribution Function—2.0/unweighted
 RDF095uRadial Distribution Function—9.5/unweighted
 RDF040mRadial Distribution Function—4.0/weighted by atomic masses
 RDF090mRadial Distribution Function—9.0/weighted by atomic masses
 RDF095mRadial Distribution Function—9.5/weighted by atomic masses

WHIM descriptors
 G3p3st component symmetry directional WHIM index/weighted by atomic polarizabilities
 GuG total symmetry index/unweighted

2D autocorrelations
 MATS4mMoran autocorrelation—lag 4/weighted by atomic masses
 MATS6mMoran autocorrelation—lag 6/weighted by atomic masses