Evaluation and optimization of virtual screening workflows with DEKOIS 2.0–a public library of challenging docking benchmark sets

MR Bauer, TM Ibrahim, SM Vogel… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
… to assess the actual performance of virtual screening (VS) workflows. To … With the DEKOIS
2.0 library, we aim to further extend and … We have improved our previously introduced DEKOIS

Applying DEKOIS 2.0 in structure-based virtual screening to probe the impact of preparation procedures and score normalization

TM Ibrahim, MR Bauer, FM Boeckler - Journal of cheminformatics, 2015 - Springer
… introduced DEKOIS 2.0 benchmark set library, we found differences in the virtual screening
… Generalizing these normalization strategies on the 18 DEKOIS 2.0 sets, improved the …

A practical guide to machine-learning scoring for structure-based virtual screening

VK Tran-Nguyen, M Junaid, S Simeon, PJ Ballester - Nature Protocols, 2023 - nature.com
DEKOIS 2.0 targets selected in Section A (ie, ACHE, HMGR and PPARA). For each target,
a new group of relevant molecules, whose composition is different from that of DEKOIS 2.0, is …

The impact of compound library size on the performance of scoring functions for structure-based virtual screening

L Fresnais, PJ Ballester - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… Also, we observed that DEKOIS 2.0 is a far more demanding benchmark than DUD-E for …
Ballester has been working on virtual screening for over 15 years now. He is the Group Leader …

Beware of simple methods for structure-based virtual screening: the critical importance of broader comparisons

VK Tran-Nguyen, PJ Ballester - Journal of Chemical Information …, 2023 - ACS Publications
… Underlined are the cases where an AVE test set led to better virtual screening performance
than the corresponding DEKOIS2.0 test set using the same SF. For target-specific ML SFs, …

pROC-chemotype plots enhance the interpretability of benchmarking results in structure-based virtual screening

TM Ibrahim, MR Bauer, A Dörr, E Veyisoglu… - 2015 - ACS Publications
… plots” offer possibilities for optimizing virtual screening strategies based on benchmarking.
We exemplify this use of our DEKOIS 2.0 benchmark sets by investigating optimization of …

Performance of machine-learning scoring functions in structure-based virtual screening

M Wójcikowski, PJ Ballester, P Siedlecki - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
… -VS can substantially improve virtual screening performance: RF-… Lastly, we test RF-Score-VS
on an independent test set from … DEKOIS 2.0 3 database was used as external validation …

DockM8: An All-in-One Open-Source Platform for Consensus Virtual Screening in Drug Design

A Lacour, H Ibrahim, A Volkamer, AKH Hirsch - 2024 - chemrxiv.org
… for structure-based virtual screening. Through extensive testing on DEKOIS 2.0, DUD-E, and
Lit… The study emphasizes the importance of tailoring the virtual screening strategy to specific …

[HTML][HTML] SCORCH: Improving structure-based virtual screening with machine learning classifiers, data augmentation, and uncertainty estimation

M McGibbon, S Money-Kyrle, V Blay… - Journal of Advanced …, 2023 - Elsevier
… The low proportion of actives and high proportion of inactives in DEKOIS 2.0 makes it well
suited to assess virtual screening performance. For each receptor, EF at 0.5 %, 1 %, 2 % and 5 …

Facilitating SARS CoV-2 RNA-Dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) drug discovery by the aid of HCV NS5B palm subdomain binders: In silico approaches and …

LK Elghoneimy, MI Ismail, FM Boeckler… - Computers in biology …, 2021 - Elsevier
… Accordingly, we used PLANTS in a prospective virtual screening to repurpose both the FDA-…
-made DEKOIS 2.0 benchmark set as a procedure to elevate the virtual screening success …