Atom-to-Atom Mapping: A Benchmarking Study of Popular Mapping Algorithms and Consensus Strategies

Here, we discuss a reaction standardization protocol followed by a comparison of popular Atom-to-atom mapping (AAM) tools (ChemAxon, Indigo, RDTool, NextMove and RXNMapper) as well as some consensus AAM strategies. For this purpose, a dataset of 1851 manually curated and mapped reactions was prepared (the Golden dataset) and used as a reference set. It has been found that RXNMapper possesses the highest accuracy, despite the fact that it has some clear disadvantages. Finally, RXNMapper was selected as the best tool, and it was applied to map the USPTO dataset. The standardization protocol used to prepare the data, as well as the data itself are available in the GitHub repository https://github.com/Laboratoire-de-Chemoinformatique.