How is chemical similarity calculated?

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Andrew Orry

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Jun 27, 2017, 8:33:20 PM6/27/17
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Q.
I am using the chemical search tools  and select FingerPrint similarity in the Query Options. How is this calculated?
A.
The method it calculates tanimoto distance using chemical fingerprints (1. -most distant, 0. - closest). The similarity = 1. - distance.
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