The application of
molecular bench
marking sets helps to assess the actual perfor
mance of virtual screening (VS) workflows. To i
mprove the efficiency of structure-based VS approaches, the selection and opti
mization of various para
meters can be guided by bench
marking. With the DEKOIS 2.0 library, we ai
m to further extend and co
mple
ment the collection of publicly available decoy sets. Based on BindingDB bioactivity data, we provide 81 new and structurally diverse bench
mark sets for a wide variety of different target classes. To ensure a
meaningful selection of ligands, we address several issues that can be found in bioactivity data. We have i
mproved our previously introduced DEKOIS
methodology with enhanced physicoche
mical
matching, now including the consideration of
molecular charges, as well as a
more sophisticated eli
mination of latent actives in the decoy set (LADS). We evaluate the docking perfor
mance of Glide, GOLD, and AutoDock Vina with our data sets and highlight existing challenges for VS tools. All DEKOIS 2.0 bench
mark sets will be
made accessible at
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