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August 8, 2022Living Journal of Computational Molecular ScienceOpen Access

Best Practices for Constructing, Preparing, and Evaluating Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Benchmarks Article v1.0

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DHDavid F. HahnJanssen (Belgium)CBChristopher I. BaylyOpen Source Science ProjectMBMelissa L. BobyMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Implication

Methodological framework demonstrates standardized benchmarking protocols in computational affinity prediction, highlighting best practices for reliable drug discovery evaluation.

Key Points

  • To establish standardized community guidelines and open-source tools for curating, preparing, and statistically evaluating protein-ligand binding affinity benchmarks.
  • Formulated standardized guidelines across experimental data curation, computational input preparation, and statistical evaluation of affinity predictions.
  • Developed 'protein-ligand-benchmark', a curated, versioned, open-access dataset designed to test free energy and machine learning models.
  • Engineered 'arsenic', an open-source software toolkit dedicated to executing standardized statistical assessments of prediction performance.
  • Identified critical failure modes in existing benchmark reports, notably substandard data curation, inadequate statistical power, and biased analytical comparisons.
  • Established a reproducible benchmark framework that provides realistic performance expectations for molecular simulation force fields and machine learning algorithms.

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Hahn et al. (2022) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0baf13faed69294fd0b078https://doi.org/10.33011/livecoms.4.1.1497
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