{
  "id": 94879,
  "title": "3D Zernike features",
  "url": "/competitions/champs-scalar-coupling/discussion/94879",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2019-06-07T16:18:33.732914500Z",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 2,
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  "content": "<p>After reading a <a href=\"https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article-abstract/35/11/1870/5161081?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">recent paper in which it was applied to the prediction of antibody interface residues</a>, I wonder if it would be possible to get meaningful features summarizing the molecule structures by <a href=\"http://cg.cs.uni-bonn.de/aigaion2root/attachments/novotni-2003-3d.pdf\">3D Zernike descriptors</a>. Has anyone tried something similar already? I might give a try later if I find the time.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "547369",
      "postDate": "06/07/2019 16:18:33",
      "content": "<p>After reading a <a href=\"https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article-abstract/35/11/1870/5161081?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">recent paper in which it was applied to the prediction of antibody interface residues</a>, I wonder if it would be possible to get meaningful features summarizing the molecule structures by <a href=\"http://cg.cs.uni-bonn.de/aigaion2root/attachments/novotni-2003-3d.pdf\">3D Zernike descriptors</a>. Has anyone tried something similar already? I might give a try later if I find the time.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "After reading a [recent paper in which it was applied to the prediction of antibody interface residues](https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article-abstract/35/11/1870/5161081?redirectedFrom=fulltext), I wonder if it would be possible to get meaningful features summarizing the molecule structures by [3D Zernike descriptors](http://cg.cs.uni-bonn.de/aigaion2root/attachments/novotni-2003-3d.pdf). Has anyone tried something similar already? I might give a try later if I find the time.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "547475",
      "postDate": "06/07/2019 19:15:50",
      "content": "<p>Sounds like a pretty complicated predictor. You may want to try with easier ones first!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Sounds like a pretty complicated predictor. You may want to try with easier ones first!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "547486",
      "postDate": "06/07/2019 19:40:55",
      "content": "<p>I thought about using them as they are one of the most commonly used rotation-invariant descriptors but haven't really had the time to do much with this competition. There are also spherical harmonics which could be very useful in this context. I don't think they will make good predictors by themselves, but may be useful depending on how you use them exactly.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I thought about using them as they are one of the most commonly used rotation-invariant descriptors but haven't really had the time to do much with this competition. There are also spherical harmonics which could be very useful in this context. I don't think they will make good predictors by themselves, but may be useful depending on how you use them exactly.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 547475,
      "author_name": "borisdee",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/07/2019 19:15:50",
      "content": "<p>Sounds like a pretty complicated predictor. You may want to try with easier ones first!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 547486,
      "author_name": "matthewmasters",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/07/2019 19:40:55",
      "content": "<p>I thought about using them as they are one of the most commonly used rotation-invariant descriptors but haven't really had the time to do much with this competition. There are also spherical harmonics which could be very useful in this context. I don't think they will make good predictors by themselves, but may be useful depending on how you use them exactly.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "547369": "After reading a [recent paper in which it was applied to the prediction of antibody interface residues](https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article-abstract/35/11/1870/5161081?redirectedFrom=fulltext), I wonder if it would be possible to get meaningful features summarizing the molecule structures by [3D Zernike descriptors](http://cg.cs.uni-bonn.de/aigaion2root/attachments/novotni-2003-3d.pdf). Has anyone tried something similar already? I might give a try later if I find the time.",
    "547475": "Sounds like a pretty complicated predictor. You may want to try with easier ones first!",
    "547486": "I thought about using them as they are one of the most commonly used rotation-invariant descriptors but haven't really had the time to do much with this competition. There are also spherical harmonics which could be very useful in this context. I don't think they will make good predictors by themselves, but may be useful depending on how you use them exactly."
  },
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}