“…As a simple retrospective test of CATS we used the thrombin inhibitor PPACK as a query structure to search for other known thrombin inhibitors in the MEDCHEM library (version 1997, as distributed by Daylight Chemical Information Systems Inc., Irvine, CA, USA) containing approximately 33 000 molecules. [8] The CATS system was able to rank 15 out of 29 (52 %) annotated thrombin inhibitors among the top 100 potential hits. For comparison, the commercially available search tool MERLIN (Daylight Chemical Information Systems Inc., Irvine, CA, USA)Ðwhich is based on Daylights definition of topological fingerprintsÐretrieved only 12 (41 %) known inhibitors among the top 100.…”