org.openscience.cdk.qsar.descriptors.molecular
Class EccentricConnectivityIndexDescriptor

java.lang.Object
  org.openscience.cdk.qsar.descriptors.molecular.EccentricConnectivityIndexDescriptor

All Implemented Interfaces:

IDescriptor, IMolecularDescriptor

public class EccentricConnectivityIndexDescriptor
extends java.lang.Object
implements IMolecularDescriptor

A topological descriptor combining distance and adjacency information. This descriptor is described by Sharma et al. [ Sharma, V. and Goswami, R. and Madan, A.K. , Eccentric Connectivity Index: A Novel Highly Discriminating Topological Descriptor for Structure-Property and Structure-Activity Studies , Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 1997, 37:273-282] 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 the expression

\xi^{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.

This descriptor uses these parameters:

Name	Default	Description
		no parameters

Returns a single value with name ECCEN

Author:

Rajarshi Guha

Belongs to the set:

qsar-descriptors

Created on:

2005-03-19

Belongs to CDK module:

qsarmolecular

Dictionary pointer(s):

eccentricConnectivityIndex in the QSAR.sf.net Descriptors Dictionary [qsar-descriptors:eccentricConnectivityIndex]

Source code:

revision 11707

Constructor Summary

EccentricConnectivityIndexDescriptor()

Method Summary

DescriptorValue	calculate(IAtomContainer container) Calculates the eccentric connectivity
java.lang.String[]	getDescriptorNames() Returns an array of names for each descriptor value calculated.
IDescriptorResult	getDescriptorResultType() Returns the specific type of the DescriptorResult object.
java.lang.String[]	getParameterNames() Gets the parameterNames attribute of the EccentricConnectivityIndexDescriptor object
java.lang.Object[]	getParameters() Gets the parameters attribute of the EccentricConnectivityIndexDescriptor object
java.lang.Object	getParameterType(java.lang.String name) Gets the parameterType attribute of the EccentricConnectivityIndexDescriptor object
DescriptorSpecification	getSpecification() Returns a Map which specifies which descriptor is implemented by this class.
void	setParameters(java.lang.Object[] params) Sets the parameters attribute of the EccentricConnectivityIndexDescriptor object

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

EccentricConnectivityIndexDescriptor

public EccentricConnectivityIndexDescriptor()

Method Detail

getSpecification

public DescriptorSpecification getSpecification()

Description copied from interface: IDescriptor

Returns a Map which specifies which descriptor is implemented by this class. These fields are used in the map:

• Specification-Reference: refers to an entry in a unique dictionary
• Implementation-Title: anything
• Implementation-Identifier: a unique identifier for this version of this class
• Implementation-Vendor: CDK, JOELib, or anything else

Specified by:

getSpecification in interface IDescriptor

Returns:

An object containing the descriptor specification

setParameters

public void setParameters(java.lang.Object[] params)
                   throws CDKException

Sets the parameters attribute of the EccentricConnectivityIndexDescriptor object

Specified by:

setParameters in interface IDescriptor

Parameters:

params - The new parameters value

Throws:

CDKException - Description of the Exception

See Also:

IDescriptor.getParameters()

getParameters

public java.lang.Object[] getParameters()

Gets the parameters attribute of the EccentricConnectivityIndexDescriptor object

Specified by:

getParameters in interface IDescriptor

Returns:

The parameters value

See Also:

IDescriptor.setParameters(java.lang.Object[])

getDescriptorNames

@TestMethod(value="testNamesConsistency")
public java.lang.String[] getDescriptorNames()

Description copied from interface: IDescriptor

Returns an array of names for each descriptor value calculated.

Many descriptors return multiple values. In general it is useful for the descriptor to indicate the names for each value.

In many cases, these names can be as simple as X1, X2, ..., XN where X is a prefix and 1, 2, ..., N are the indices. On the other hand it is also possible to return other arbitrary names, which should be documented in the Javadocs for the decsriptor (e.g., the CPSA descriptor).

Note that by default if a descriptor returns a single value (such as ALOGPDescriptor the return array will have a single element

Specified by:

getDescriptorNames in interface IDescriptor

Returns:

An array of descriptor names, equal in length to the number of descriptor calculated..

getParameterNames

public java.lang.String[] getParameterNames()

Gets the parameterNames attribute of the EccentricConnectivityIndexDescriptor object

Specified by:

getParameterNames in interface IDescriptor

Returns:

The parameterNames value

getParameterType

public java.lang.Object getParameterType(java.lang.String name)

Gets the parameterType attribute of the EccentricConnectivityIndexDescriptor object

Specified by:

getParameterType in interface IDescriptor

Parameters:

name - Description of the Parameter

Returns:

The parameterType value

calculate

public DescriptorValue calculate(IAtomContainer container)

Calculates the eccentric connectivity

Specified by:

calculate in interface IMolecularDescriptor

Parameters:

container - Parameter is the atom container.

Returns:

An IntegerResult value representing the eccentric connectivity index

getDescriptorResultType

public IDescriptorResult getDescriptorResultType()

Returns the specific type of the DescriptorResult object.

The return value from this method really indicates what type of result will be obtained from the DescriptorValue object. Note that the same result can be achieved by interrogating the DescriptorValue object; this method allows you to do the same thing, without actually calculating the descriptor.

Specified by:

getDescriptorResultType in interface IMolecularDescriptor

Returns:

an object that implements the IDescriptorResult interface indicating the actual type of values returned by the descriptor in the DescriptorValue object