Which is better Graph based or descriptor based model for QSAR prediction? #journal #memo #chemoinformatics

There are lots of Graph convolutional network(GCN) models are applied for QSAR tasks instead of traditional descriptor based model. The interesting point of GCN is that we don’t need feature engineering I think. It means that during the learning process, GCN learns molecular feature from given molecular graph. On the other side, descriptor based model