The OEFilter object table can also be used to retrieve specific molecular properties or filtering terms for which a free function does not exist. The number of molecular properties is large. In addition, some properties are more experimental than others. For these reasons free functions are not provided for everything that can be calculated. This example demonstrates how to extract a property, the number of Lipinski violations, from the OEFilter object molecular property table by writing the table to a oeosstream.
Warning
The exact number of fields the OEFilter object outputs depends on the filter file being used. The field will only be output if the filter rule is turned on. That is why this example will search the header line for the position of the “Lipinski violations” field. This key-value lookup is recommended for extracting specific fields from the filter table.
This simple example takes and input and output file as arguments.
Usage: ./specificmolprop <input>
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