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Table 1 A summary of the scoring functions evaluated

From: The scoring of poses in protein-protein docking: current capabilities and future directions

CP_DECK [72]

r

The DECK potential, reimplemented based on the original source code.

CP_RMFCA [146]

r

An α-carbon potential.

CP_RMFCEN1 [147]

r

A 6 bin distance-dependent centroid-centroid potential.

CP_RMFCEN2 [147]

r

A 7 bin distance-dependent centroid-centroid potential.

CP_SKOIP [111]

r

A statistical intermolecular contact potential.

CP_TB [75]

r

A docking contact potential.

CP_TSC [74]

r

A 2 bin docking potential.

PAIR [69]

p

Residue potentials that have been factorised into different energetic contributions (E_pair, E_local, E_ZS3DC, E_3DC and E_3D respectively). These are prefixed with either ‘CP_E’ for energies or ‘CP_Z’ for z-scores, and suffixed with ‘_CB’ for the β-carbon potential and ‘_MIN’ for the minimum inter-residue distance potential. The combination of these into the MixRank ranking strategy is also included. For this method, the 5 largest complexes failed to produce scores and are thus omitted.

LOCAL[69]

p

S3DC [69]

p

3DC [69]

p

3D [69]

p

CP_MIXRANK [69]

p

CP_DDGrw [76]

r

The weighted intermolecular contact potential extracted from ΔΔG data, a preliminary model.

CP_DDGru [76]

r

The unweighted intermolecular contact potential extracted from ΔΔG data, a preliminary model.

CP_BFVK [148]

r

A number of residue-level contact potentials which have been used for protein folding studies. For these, the naming scheme and descriptions can be found elsewhere [123, 149]. Contact energy matrices were downloaded from the Potentials’R’Us server.

CP_BL [150]

r

CP_BT [151]

r

CP_GKS [152]

r

CP_HLPL [153]

r

CP_MJ1 [154]

r

CP_MJ2 [155]

r

CP_MJ2h [155]

r

CP_MJ3h [114]

r

CP_MJPL [153]

r

CP_MS [156]

r

CP_MSBM [157, 158]

r

CP_Qa [159]

r

CP_Qm [159]

r

CP_Qp [159]

r

CP_RO [160]

r

CP_SJKG [161]

r

CP_SKOa [162]

r

CP_SKOb [162]

r

CP_TD [163]

r

CP_TEl [164]

r

CP_TEs [164]

r

CP_TS [165]

r

CP_VD [166]

r

AP_DCOMPLEX [105]

r

The DComplex potential, reimplementation based on original data file.

AP_dDFIRE [167]

d

The dDFIRE potential.

AP_DFIRE2 [168]

d

The DFIRE 2.0 potential.

AP_T1 [74]

r

The first of two two-step docking potentials.

AP_T2 [74]

r

The second of two two-step docking potentials.

AP_DOPE [169]

r

The standard DOPE potential.

AP_DOPE_HR [169]

r

The high-resolution potentials implemented in MODELLER [170, 171].

AP_ACE [172]

d

The atomic contact energy desolvation score, calculated using FireDock [59].

AP_OPUS_PSP [113]

d

The OPUS_PSP folding potential.

AP_GEOMETRIC

d

The geometric potential reported in Li and Liang: Geometric packing potential function for model selection in protein structure and protein-protein binding predictions, unpublished.

AP_DARS [73]

r

The DARS decoys-as-reference-state statistical potential.

AP_URS [73]

r

The URS statistical potential.

AP_MPS [73]

r

The MFP statistical potential.

AP_WENG [173]

r

An atomic contact potential.

AP_calRW [174]

d

The distance-dependent calRW potential.

AP_calRWp [174]

d

The orientation-dependent calRWplus potential.

AP_GOAP_ALL [175]

d

The GOAP potential and its two constituent terms.

AP_GOAP_DF [175]

d

AP_GOAP_G [175]

d

AP_PISA [110]

d

The PISA score.

AP_DDGrw [76]

r

The weighted intermolecular contact potential extracted from ΔΔG data.

AP_DDGru [76]

r

The unweighted intermolecular contact potential extracted from ΔΔG data.

ATTRACT [61]

d

The ATTRACT scoring function, as calculated in PTools [176].

PYDOCK_TOT [54]

i

The PyDock scoring function and the electrostatics, van der Waals and desolvation terms it is composed from.

ELE [54]

i

VDW [54]

i

DESOLV [177]

i

FIREDOCK [59]

d

The general purpose, enzyme-inhibitor and antibody-antigen FireDock scores and the insideness concavity score and hydrogen-bonding, π-π, cation-π and aliphatic potentials they are composed from.

FIREDOCK_EI [59]

d

FIREDOCK_AB [59]

d

INSIDE [59]

d

HBOND [59]

d

PI_PI [59]

d

CAT_PI [59]

d

ALIPH [59]

d

SIPPER [67]

i

The SIPPER score and its amino-acid propensity and desolvation constituents.

PROPNSTS [67]

i

ODA [121, 122]

i

ZRANK [57]

d

The original ZRANK scoring function.

ZRANK2 [58]

d

The reoptimised ZRANK scoring function.

NIP [79]

d

Interface packing score.

NSC [79]

d

Surface complementarity score.

ROSETTA [112]

d

The unweighted Rosetta energy, calculated using PyRosetta.

ROSETTADOCK [112]

d

The optimised RosettaDock energy, calculated using PyRosetta.

CG_PP [112]

d

The coarse-grain PyRosetta pair-potential, van der Waals, environment potential and β-potential.

CG_VDW [112]

d

CG_ENV [112]

d

CG_BETA [112]

d

HBOND2 [112]

d

The atomic-resolution PyRosetta hydrogen bonding potential, amino-acid propensity scores, attractive and repulsive van der Waals energies, pair potential and desolvation energy.

AA_PROP [112]

d

FA_ATR [112]

d

FA_REP [112]

d

PA_PP [112]

d

LK_SOLV [178]

d

NHB [112]

d

The total number of hydrogen bonds, calculated using PyRosetta.

CHARMM_TOT [179]

d

The total CHARMM energy, electrostatic energy, SASA energy and van der Waals, as calculated using the enerCHARMM script in the MMTSB toolset.

CHARMM_ELE [179]

d

CHARMM_SASA [179]

d

CHARMM_VDW [179]

d

SPIDER [78]

d

The sub-graph mining based SPIDER score. As the SPIDER program only allowed scoring using a fixed receptor molecule, the unbound receptor conformation was used for this method, with a relaxed parameter set (dRMSD_CutOff = 1.0, intrCvrAbs_CutOff = 20, intrCvrPer_CutOff = 0.3, intrNumPat_CutOff = 10 and intrAveOcc_CutOff = 2).

  1. Shown are the name of the scoring function and reference, how it was calculated (r for reimplemented, d for downloaded, p for personal communication, i for in-house), and a description/notes.