extractDrugECI: Calculates the Eccentric Connectivity Index Descriptor
Description
Calculates the Eccentric Connectivity Index Descriptor
Usage
extractDrugECI(molecules, silent = TRUE)
Arguments
molecules
Parsed molucule object.
silent
Logical. Whether the calculating process
should be shown or not, default is TRUE.
Value
A data frame, each row represents one of the molecules,
each column represents one feature.
This function returns one column named ECCEN.
Details
Eccentric Connectivity Index (ECI) is a topological descriptor combining
distance and adjacency information. This descriptor is described by Sharma et al.
and has been shown to correlate well with a number of physical properties.
The descriptor is also reported to have good discriminatory ability.
The eccentric connectivity index for a hydrogen supressed molecular graph
is given by
$$x_i^c = \sum_{i = 1}^{n} E(i) V(i)$$
where E(i) is the eccentricity of the i-th atom
(path length from the i-th atom to the atom farthest from it)
and V(i) is the vertex degree of the i-th atom.
References
Sharma, V. and Goswami, R. and Madan, A.K. (1997),
Eccentric Connectivity Index: A Novel Highly Discriminating
Topological Descriptor for Structure-Property and Structure-Activity Studies,
Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 37:273-282