| Background: Inhibition of angiotensin converting enzyme (i.e inhibition of cleaving
angiotensin I to the potent vasoconstrictor angiotensin II) leads to the treatment and
reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Peptides (synthetic - natural) with ACE
inhibitory activity were studied continuously during the last decades and resulting data
were applied by medicinal chemists to design and develop new drugs. Their structure
and activity/property relationships were studied during these years and different
QSAR models were developed which assisted researchers and manufactures to reduce
the cost of experiments. Developed models were reviewed in the present paper
according to the applied dataset, descriptors, feature selection methods, model
development and validation methods. The selected descriptors for different datasets
and models were compared and discussed according to the experimental findings |