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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Comput Mol Sci. 2021 Aug 16;12(3):e1571. doi: 10.1002/wcms.1571

Table 2:

Summary of the reviewed scoring functions used in different models for predicting small molecule binding. a Some scoring functions optimized for protein may also be used for RNA. b Some models contain more than one scoring function, only the default one is listed. c The year that the original model was first published.

Category Model Targeta Score typeb Yearc
Physics-based MORDOR (64) RNA force fields 2008
DOCK 6 (65) RNA force fields 2009
GOLD (59) protein empirical terms 1997
Glide (61) protein empirical terms 2004
RiboDock (60) RNA empirical terms 2004
AutoDock 4 (63) protein empirical terms 2007
AutoDock Vina (66) protein empirical terms 2010
iMDLScore1 (57)
iMDLScore2 (57)
RNA empirical terms 2012
rDock (67) protein nucleic acid empirical terms 2014
RLDOCK (70; 71) RNA empirical terms 2020
Knowledge-based DrugScoreRNA (112; 173) RNA statistical potentials 2000
KScore (174) protein nucleic acid statistical potentials 2008
LigandRNA (175) RNA statistical potentials 2013
SPA-LN (176) nucleic acid iterative statistical potentials 2017
ITScore-NL (142) nucleic acid iterative statistical potentials 2020
Machine-learning T-Bind (177) protein gradient boosting trees 2018
RNAPosers (141) RNA random forest 2020
RNAmigos (178) RNA graph neural network 2020