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Scoring drives targeted growth (vertical blue arrow) and pruning/filtering (horizontal red arrow) in de novo design. Examples of targeted growth scoring functions include the DOCK grid energy score, footprint similarity score, and pharmacophore score. Examples of pruning/filtering criteria include Hungarian RMSD, molecular weight, number of rotatable bonds, scaffolds per layer, etc.
