title: On some aspects of validation of predictive quantitative structure-activity relationship models.
abstract: The success of any quantitative structure-activity relationship model depends on the accuracy of the input data, selection of appropriate descriptors and statistical tools and, most importantly, the validation of the developed model. Validation is the process by which the reliability and relevance of a procedure are established for a specific purpose. This review focuses on the importance of validation of quantitative structure-activity relationship models and different methods of validation. Some important issues, such as internal versus external validation, method of selection of training set compounds and training set size, applicability domain, variable selection and suitable parameters to indicate external predictivity, are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Jadavpur University, Drug Theoretics and Cheminformatics Lab, Division of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Kolkata 700 032, India +91 98315 94140 ; +91 33 2837 1078 ; kunalroy_in@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Kunal
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Roy