Table Info

Dataset	ρ↑	τ↑	PI↑
CASF 2013	0.59	0.55	0.60
CASF 2016	0.74	0.67	0.76

Declarations

Acknowledgments

The authors thank the supercomputer center ROMEO for providing CPU-GPU times.

Author contributions

KC: Conceptualization, Software, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. AG: Software, Writing— review & editing, Supervision. XV, SB, and LAS: Writing—review & editing, Supervision. All authors read and approved the submitted version.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

Not applicable.

Consent to participate

Not applicable.

Consent to publication

Not applicable.

Availability of data and materials

The datasets analyzed for this study can be found in the PDBbind website http://pdbbind.org.cn/.

Funding

This work was supported by the Association Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie (ANRT) through a CIFRE grant [2020/0691]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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