Materials Informatics I : Methods

This contributed volume explores the integration of machine learning and cheminformatics within materials science, focusing on predictive modeling techniques. It begins with foundational concepts in materials informatics and cheminformatics, emphasizing quantitative structure-property relationships (QSPR). The volume then presents various methods and tools, including advanced QSPR models, quantitative read-across structure-property relationship (q-RASPR) models, optimization strategies with minimal data, and in silico studies using different descriptors. Additionally, it explores machine learning algorithms and their applications in materials science, alongside innovative modeling approaches for quantum-theoretic properties. Overall, the book serves as a comprehensive resource for understanding and applying machine learning in the study and development of advanced materials and is a useful tool for students, researchers and professionals working in these areas.

Dr. Kunal Roy is Professor & Ex-Head in the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He has been a recipient of the Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship (University of Manchester, 2007) and Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship (University of Manchester, 2013) and a former visiting scientist of Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri" IRCCS, Milano, Italy. The field of his research interest is Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) and Molecular Modeling with applications in Drug Design, Property Modeling, and Predictive Ecotoxicology. Dr. Roy has published more than 380 research articles in refereed journals (current SCOPUS h index 55; total citations to date more than 15000). He has also co-authored two QSAR-related books (Academic Press and Springer), edited six QSAR books (Springer, Academic Press, and IGI Global), and published more than ten book chapters. Dr. Roy is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Diversity (Springer Nature) and an Associate Editor of the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (Elsevier). Dr. Roy serves on the Editorial Boards of several International journals, including (1) European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (Elsevier); (2) Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling (Elsevier); (3) Chemical Biology and Drug Design (Wiley); and (4) Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery (Informa). Apart from this, Prof. Roy is a regular reviewer for QSAR papers in the journals like Chemosphere (Elsevier), Journal of Hazardous Materials (Elsevier), Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (Elsevier), Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (ACS), ACS Omega (ACS), RSC Advances (RSC), Molecular Informatics (Wiley), SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research (T&F), etc. Prof. Roy has been recipient of several awards including AICTE Career Award (2003-04), DST Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientists (2005), Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Most Cited Paper 2003-2006, 2004-2007 and 2006-2009 Awards from Elsevier, The Netherlands, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters Most Cited Paper 2006-2009 Award from Elsevier, The Netherlands, Professor R. D. Desai 80th Birthday Commemoration Medal & Prize (2017) from Indian Chemical Society, etc. Prof. Roy has been a participant in the EU funded projects nanoBRIDGES and IONTOX apart from several national Government funded projects (UGC, AICTE, CSIR, ICMR, DBT, DAE). Prof. Roy has recently been placed in the list of the World's Top 2% science-wide author database (2023) (World rank 55 in the subfield of Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry) (Ioannidis, John P.A. (2024), "August 2024 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators", Elsevier Data Repository.  

Arkaprava Banerjee is a researcher (funded by the Life Sciences Research Board, DRDO, Govt. of India) working at the Drug Theoretics and Cheminformatics Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Mr. Banerjee has twenty-two research articles published in reputed journals and two book chapters with overall citations of 392 and an h-index of 11 (Scopus). His ORCID identifier is 0000-0001-8468-0784, His expertise lies in similarity-based cheminformatic approaches like Read-Across and Read-Across Structure-Activity Relationship (RASAR), a novel method that combines the concept of QSAR and Read-Across. Mr. Banerjee is also a Java programmer who has developed various cheminformatic tools based on QSAR, Read-Across, and RASAR, and the tools are freely available from the DTC Laboratory Supplementary Website. He received the Prof. Anupam Sengupta Bronze Medal from Jadavpur University for securing the highest marks in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the MPharm Examination. He has also received a special diploma awarded by the Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, Moscow, Russia, and the ASCCT Travel Award from the American Society for Cellular and Computation Toxicology. Together with Prof. Kunal Roy, he has been one of the first researchers to develop quantitative models using similarity and error-based descriptors (quantitative/classification Read-Across Structure-Activity Relationship: q-RASAR/c-RASAR models) with applications in drug design, materials science, and property modeling.  Recently, he coauthored a book on “q-RASAR,” which was published by Springer.