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Is Tanimoto a metric?

Surendran, A.; Zsigmond, K.; Lopez Perez, K.; Miranda Quintana, R. A.

2025-02-23 bioinformatics
10.1101/2025.02.18.638904 bioRxiv
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No. However, here we show how to generate a metric consistent with the Tanimoto similarity. We also explore new properties of this index, and how it relates to other popular alternatives.

Matching journals

The top 10 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.

1
PLOS ONE
● 5266 papers in training set
Top 18%
9.9%
2
Journal of Computational Chemistry
○ 13 papers in training set
Top 0.1%
6.8%
3
Scientific Reports
○ 3612 papers in training set
Top 10%
6.8%
4
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
● 238 papers in training set
Top 0.9%
5.5%
5
Bioinformatics
◐ 1204 papers in training set
Top 4%
5.5%
6
Entropy
○ 21 papers in training set
Top 0.1%
4.1%
7
Journal of Theoretical Biology
○ 162 papers in training set
Top 0.8%
4.1%
8
PLOS Computational Biology
● 1863 papers in training set
Top 9%
3.5%
9
Physical Review E
● 112 papers in training set
Top 0.5%
3.3%
10
Physical Biology
○ 46 papers in training set
Top 0.2%
2.7%
50% of probability mass above
11
BMC Bioinformatics
○ 457 papers in training set
Top 3%
2.1%
12
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
○ 13 papers in training set
Top 0.1%
2.1%
13
Briefings in Bioinformatics
◐ 354 papers in training set
Top 4%
1.9%
14
The Journal of Chemical Physics
● 56 papers in training set
Top 0.3%
1.9%
15
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
● 38 papers in training set
Top 0.5%
1.7%
16
Biophysical Journal
○ 631 papers in training set
Top 3%
1.7%
17
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
● 242 papers in training set
Top 3%
1.7%
18
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
○ 494 papers in training set
Top 9%
1.5%
19
Computers in Biology and Medicine
○ 128 papers in training set
Top 4%
1.0%
20
Biomolecules
○ 100 papers in training set
Top 2%
0.9%
21
The European Physical Journal Plus
○ 13 papers in training set
Top 0.3%
0.9%
22
Theoretical Population Biology
○ 50 papers in training set
Top 0.4%
0.9%
23
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
○ 92 papers in training set
Top 1%
0.9%
24
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
● 140 papers in training set
Top 1%
0.9%
25
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
● 37 papers in training set
Top 1%
0.9%
26
PeerJ
◐ 308 papers in training set
Top 11%
0.9%
27
BioData Mining
○ 22 papers in training set
Top 0.8%
0.9%
28
SoftwareX
○ 15 papers in training set
Top 0.3%
0.9%
29
Frontiers in Genetics
○ 230 papers in training set
Top 5%
0.9%
30
Mathematics
○ 11 papers in training set
Top 0.3%
0.9%