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ReviewNature methods2026

A fully automated benchmarking suite to compare macromolecular complexes.

Gabriel Studer, Xavier Robin, Stefan Bienert, Janani Durairaj, Peter Škrinjar, Gerardo Tauriello, Andrew Mark Waterhouse, Torsten Schwede

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Review in Nature methods, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Stoic: fast and accurate protein stoichiometry prediction.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026
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  2. Evaluating generalization in protein-ligand cofolding methods.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2026
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  4. AI-Driven De Novo Binder Design: From Structure Prediction to Closed-Loop Optimization.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Gabriel Studer *Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0462-1456
Xavier Robin *Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-3200
Stefan BienertBiozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9673-9103
Janani DurairajBiozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1698-4556
Peter ŠkrinjarBiozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-9996-0048
Gerardo TaurielloBiozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5921-7007
Andrew Mark WaterhouseBiozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-5717-6063
Torsten SchwedeBiozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. torsten.schwede@unibas.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2715-335X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein structure prediction has a long history of benchmarking efforts such as critical assessment of structure prediction, continuous automated model evaluation and critical assessment of prediction of interactions. With the rise of artificial intelligence-based methods for prediction of macromolecular complexes, benchmarking with large datasets and robust, unsupervised scores to compare predictions against a reference has become essential. Also, the increasing size and complexity of experimentally determined reference structures by crystallography or cryogenic electron microscopy poses challenges for structure comparison methods. Here we review the current state of the art in scoring methodologies, identify existing limitations and present more suitable approaches for scoring of tertiary and quaternary structures, protein-protein interfaces and protein-ligand complexes. Our methods are designed to scale efficiently, enabling the assessment of large, complex systems. All developments are available in the structure benchmarking framework of OpenStructure. OpenStructure is open source software and available for free at https://openstructure.org/ .

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BenchmarkingComputational BiologyMacromolecular SubstancesProteinsSoftwareAlgorithmsDatabases, ProteinModels, MolecularProtein ConformationMacromolecular SubstancesProteins

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PMID41429982
PMCPMC12904798

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