area under the curve

initialism: AUC
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.11407

The area under a graph curve, such as the number of actives identified by an algorithm as a function of the number of compounds tested, commonly used as a measure of the discriminating ability of an algorithm to correctly classify a test molecule.

Note: In pharmacokinetics AUC is the area under the plot of plasma concentration versus time, which is used to evaluate drug exposure.
See also: ROC Curve
Source:
PAC, 2016, 88, 239. (Glossary of terms used in computational drug design, part II (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)) on page 241 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'area under the curve' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.11407 RIS BibTex EndNote
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