For me MOE was the easiest to calculate properties for my QSAR study, however, I don't have the subscription. Thus, I am looking for an opensource QSAR modeling tool easy to use and acceptable in publications. Thank you for your recommendations.
We have recently developed and published (in JCIM journal) an open source software to build multi-target or multi-conditions (as well as simple) classification based QSAR models using LDA and Random Forest approach. The software along with the source code is available here:
https://sites.google.com/view/qsar-co
However, please note that the descriptor calculation step is not available in this software. You can easily calculate descriptors using freely available PaDEL software (download from here: http://www.yapcwsoft.com/dd/padeldescriptor/ )
Alvascience provides free tools for academia, alvaMolecule and alvaRunner. alvaDesc and alvaModel are provided at a special price to foster and support academic research. More info here: https://bit.ly/34RHqTZ