Public binding free energy benchmark (Ross et al. 2023)
Assembled collection of proteins and congeneric small-molecule series with measured affinities, used to score relative binding free energy predictions against experiment.
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- FEP+ benchmark four-target subset, affinity ranking and cost Protocol · part of this benchmark · 10 evaluations · 100 results
- FEP+ benchmark OpenFE subset, affinity ranking Protocol · part of this benchmark · 6 evaluations · 54 results
- Repeat-assay reproducibility of relative binding free energies Protocol · part of this benchmark · 1 evaluation · 6 results
- Public FEP benchmark, FEP+ accuracy against experiment Protocol · part of this benchmark · 1 evaluation · 6 results
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Baseline status by linked protocol
- FEP+ benchmark four-target subset, affinity ranking and cost · 0/2 roles measured
- FEP+ benchmark OpenFE subset, affinity ranking · 0/2 roles measured
- Repeat-assay reproducibility of relative binding free energies · 0/2 roles measured
- Public FEP benchmark, FEP+ accuracy against experiment · 0/2 roles measured
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Sources and history
Release 2026-10-22-1b7cf027e4f6 · Record review: source checked
2 source records and release history
- The maximal and current accuracy of rigorous protein-ligand binding free energy calculations · Original source · Communications Chemistry 6:222 (2023); Europe PMC full-text XML snapshot PMC10576784
- Boltz-2: Towards Accurate and Efficient Binding Affinity Prediction, supplementary appendix · Original source · bioRxiv v1 posted 2025-06-18; supplement PDF as deposited in Europe PMC PMC12262699 (PPR1038344)
Technical metadata and extraction receipts
Stable ID: uc-leadopt-20261022-benchmark-fep-public
- areas
- molecular-interactions
- contexts
- research
- entity level
- suite
- version
- As curated for Ross et al. 2023; data released as the public_binding_free_energy_benchmark repository, releases v1.0 and v2.0 (both 2023-06-26, MIT)
- task
- Relative binding affinity prediction for congeneric series
- scope note
- Table 3 (FEP+ accuracy beside experimental reproducibility), Table 2 (the data sets and their compound counts) and Table 1 (the assay-reproducibility survey) extracted. Per-system values in the Supplementary Results and the repository were not retrieved. The Boltz-2 supplement's two subsets of this collection are recorded as separate protocols.
- source locator
- Ross et al. 2023 Tables 1-3; Boltz-2 supplement appendix D.2.1 and E.2.1
- limitations
- Ross et al. 2023 states its results use release v1.0 of the public benchmark repository; the Boltz-2 supplement does not state which release its subsets come from.; The 876-complex OpenFE subset and the 87-compound 4-target subset both derive from this collection and must partly overlap, so results on the two subsets are not independent. Neither source states the overlap.
- review
- method: source-hash-verification; pdf-text-parse; independent-cell-check; rendered-source-visual-check; ai-assisted-source-review; method note: Re-retrieved all three sources and matched each pinned SHA-256. Re-rendered the Boltz-2 supplement with pdftotext -layout (poppler 26.08.0) and matched the text layer's recorded SHA-256. Re-read all 256 cells with a parser written for this review that does not import the extraction script, matching each result to its cell through its own source_locator, and separately read appendix tables 11, 12 and 14 from PNG renderings of PDF pages 29 and 30 at 160 dpi, and Ross Table 3 from the pinned XML markup. Checked printed value, numeric value, locator, metric concept, qualifier, direction, unit, uncertainty and the linked configuration, protocol and dataset, and that every N/A or '-' cell is recorded as missing with a reason.; reviewer: claude; reviewer note: Claude review agent, independent of the extraction agent; no human review claimed; reviewed at: 2026-10-22T13:40:00Z; artifact sha256: f371d2e373306588d11b695b8de21b253a90293d6a15884f635bcf927bdebb1d; retrieval url: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/PMC10576784/fullTextXML
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