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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Oct 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Chem Theory Comput. 2025 Oct 6;21(19):9710–9725. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5c01193

Table 2.

Statistical Comparison of PB Free Energy Prediction Errors between the GB Model and PBGNN on the AMBER PBSA and PBSMALL Benchmarks, Measured by MAPEa

method Q1 (%) median (%) Q3 (%) μ(%) σ(%)
AMBER PBSA
GB (igb = 1) 1.94 3.18 5.65 4.19 3.21
GB (igb = 2) 2.35 3.40 5.17 3.97 2.32
GB (igb = 5) 2.09 3.54 4.66 3.57 1.98
PBGNN 1.10 2.59 5.17 3.82 3.71
PBSMALL
GB (igb = 1) 2.55 5.45 12.96 13.68 28.97
GB (igb = 2) 4.69 8.20 13.63 17.43 35.42
GB (igb = 5) 2.73 6.31 15.41 17.43 33.73
PBGNN 2.18 4.62 8.57 8.50 12.55
a

Reported metrics include the first quartile (Q1), median, third quartile (Q3), mean (μ), and standard deviation (σ).