A statistical framework to evaluate virtual screening

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is widely used to evaluate virtual screening (VS) studies. However, the method fails to address the "early recognition" problem specific to VS. Although many other metrics, such...

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Main Authors: White Stephen W, Hevener Kirk E, Zhao Wei, Lee Richard E, Boyett James M
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-07-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/225