alvaDesc calculates almost 4000 descriptors independent of 3-dimensional information such as constitutional, topological, pharmacophore. It includes ETA and Atom-type E-state indices together with atom pairs, functional groups and fragment counts. Furthermore, alvaDesc implements almost 1500 3-dimensional descriptors such as 3D-autocorrelation, Weighted Holistic Invariant Molecular descriptors (WHIM), GETAWAY and CATS3D descriptors.
alvaDesc provides the calculation of several model-based physicochemical properties such as molar refractivity, topological polar surface area (TPSA), molecular volume estimations, two LogP models (Moriguchi and Ghose-Chippen octanol-water partition coefficient) and provides also a significant list of drug-like and lead-like alerts including the well-known Lipinski alert index. alvaDesc calculates molecular descriptors both on full-connected and non-full-connected molecular structures, such as salts, mixtures, ionic liquids and metal complexes.
Molecular descriptors are divided into 30 logical blocks.
Block name (# of descriptors)
- Constitutional indices (48)
 - Ring descriptors (32)
 - Topological indices (79)
 - Walk and path counts (46)
 - Connectivity indices (37)
 - Information indices (50)
 - 2D matrix-based descriptors (607)
 - 2D autocorrelations (213)
 - Burden eigenvalues (96)
 - P_VSA-like descriptors (55)
 - ETA indices (38)
 - Edge adjacency indices (324)
 - Geometrical descriptors (38)
 - 3D matrix-based descriptors (99)
 - 3D autocorrelations (80)
 - RDF descriptors (210)
 - 3D-MoRSE descriptors (224)
 - WHIM descriptors (114)
 - GETAWAY descriptors (273)
 - Randic molecular profiles (41)
 - Functional group counts (154)
 - Atom-centred fragments (115)
 - Atom-type E-state indices (172)
 - Pharmacophore descriptors (165)
 - 2D Atom Pairs (1596)
 - 3D Atom Pairs (36)
 - Charge descriptors (15)
 - Molecular properties (20)
 - Drug-like indices (28)
 - CATS 3D descriptors (300)
 
See the full list of descriptors here
Cite as: Alvascience Srl, alvaDesc (software for molecular descriptors calculation), 2019, https://www.alvascience.com