AUTHOR=Launay Guillaume , Ohue Masahito , Prieto Santero Julia , Matsuzaki Yuri , Hilpert Cécile , Uchikoga Nobuyuki , Hayashi Takanori , Martin Juliette TITLE=Evaluation of CONSRANK-Like Scoring Functions for Rescoring Ensembles of Protein–Protein Docking Poses JOURNAL=Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences VOLUME=7 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/molecular-biosciences/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2020.559005 DOI=10.3389/fmolb.2020.559005 ISSN=2296-889X ABSTRACT=

Scoring is a challenging step in protein–protein docking, where typically thousands of solutions are generated. In this study, we ought to investigate the contribution of consensus-rescoring, as introduced by Oliva et al. (2013) with the CONSRANK method, where the set of solutions is used to build statistics in order to identify recurrent solutions. We explore several ways to perform consensus-based rescoring on the ZDOCK decoy set for Benchmark 4. We show that the information of the interface size is critical for successful rescoring in this context, but that consensus rescoring in itself performs less well than traditional physics-based evaluation. The results of physics-based and consensus-based rescoring are partially overlapping, supporting the use of a combination of these approaches.