Table 3 Average molecular properties of reference ligands and generated molecules for the PDBbind dataset

From: Target-aware 3D molecular generation based on guided equivariant diffusion

Metrics

Ref.

ResGen

PocketFlow

GCDM

TargetDiff

DiffSBDD

PMDM

DiffGui

Vina Score (↓)

− 7.747 ± 3.56

− 2.177 ± 1.68

− 3.596 ± 1.80

− 2.095 ± 1.29

− 5.263 ± 2.54

− 5.011 ± 2.28

− 4.990  ± 2.41

− 6.700 ± 2.55

Vina Min (↓)

− 8.605 ± 2.44

− 4.704 ± 2.16

− 4.823 ± 1.85

− 3.545 ± 1.49

− 6.959 ± 2.58

− 5.894 ± 2.22

− 6.516 ±2.61

− 7.655 ± 2.51

Vina Dock (↓)

− 9.133 ± 2.14

− 7.154 ± 2.29

− 6.245 ± 2.00

− 5.130 ± 1.66

− 8.195 ± 2.23

− 6.853 ± 2.03

− 7.577 ± 2.54

− 8.448 ± 2.24

QED (↑)

0.459 ± 0.22

0.577 ± 0.15

0.501 ± 0.17

0.477 ± 0.13

0.460 ± 0.22

0.466 ± 0.19

0.474 ± 0.21

0.631 ± 0.21

SA (↑)

0.720 ± 0.10

0.784 ± 0.11

0.784 ± 0.15

0.706 ± 0.13

0.604 ± 0.13

0.633 ± 0.13

0.607 ± 0.15

0.678 ± 0.15

LogP

1.731 ± 2.74

1.749 ± 1.88

2.855 ± 1.80

0.807 ± 1.67

1.707 ± 2.38

1.384 ± 2.02

1.515 ± 2.60

1.977 ± 3.01

TPSA

115.91 ± 69.43

60.11 ± 29.91

38.46 ± 45.58

53.45 ± 34.28

103.06 ± 60.60

85.66 ± 45.87

117.74 ± 130.83

100.49 ± 62.97

  1. Bold fonts indicate the best results. Statistical analyses are performed using two-sided paired t tests without adjustment for multiple comparisons.