These methods emphasize the hydrophobic core and solvent-exposed DOPE . Statistical potentials are more computationally efficient than energy calculations.
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The idea is to consider statistical observations as heavenly bodies governed by a statistical potential energy which is zero only when an underlying statistical null hypothesis is true.
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Statistical potentials, in contrast to physics-based potentials, have the advantage of being fast to compute, of accounting implicitly of complex effects and being less sensitive to small changes in the protein structure.
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An alternative approach is to derive a knowledge-based statistical potential for interactions from a large database of protein-ligand complexes, such as the Protein Data Bank, and evaluate the fit of the pose according to this inferred potential.
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Statistical potentials are empirical methods based on observed residue-residue contact frequencies among proteins of known structure in the PDB . They assign a probability or energy score to each possible pairwise interaction between amino acids and combine these pairwise interaction scores into a single score for the entire model.