文摘
Virtual screening benchmarking studies were carried out on 11 targets to evaluate the performance of threecommonly used approaches: 2D ligand similarity (Daylight, TOPOSIM), 3D ligand similarity (SQW, ROCS),and protein structure-based docking (FLOG, FRED, Glide). Active and decoy compound sets were assembledfrom both the MDDR and the Merck compound databases. Averaged over multiple targets, ligand-basedmethods outperformed docking algorithms. This was true for 3D ligand-based methods only when chemicaltyping was included. Using mean enrichment factor as a performance metric, Glide appears to be the bestdocking method among the three with FRED a close second. Results for all virtual screening methods aredatabase dependent and can vary greatly for particular targets.