Daylight fingerprints

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CHM-002875",
  "term": "Daylight fingerprints",
  "field": "Chemistry",
  "definition": "A type of molecular fingerprint used in cheminformatics to represent chemical structures as bit strings. These fingerprints are generated by traversing all possible paths of a certain length within a molecule and hashing them into a fixed-length binary vector. They are widely employed for similarity searching, clustering, and machine learning applications in drug discovery.",
  "subject": "Chemistry and Human Health",
  "see_also": [
    "path fingerprints",
    "hashing"
  ],
  "references": [
    "PAC, 2016, 88, 239. 'Glossary of terms used in computational drug design, part II (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 245 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2012-1204)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/chemistry/daylight-fingerprints/"
}