John Mitchell Group: RF-Score

RF-Score: A machine learning approach to predicting protein–ligand binding affinity with applications to molecular docking

Please feel free to use RF-Score. It is free of charge to all users and we hope that the community enjoys using it.


We thank the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (grant BB/G000247/1) for funding this work.


We also thank SULSA for funding.

Download a zip file containing the RF-Score scripts and programs.

To learn how to use RF-Score, please read the following instructions:

Instructions to reproduce RF-Score performance on PDBbind benchmark

Instructions to re-score other sets of complexes with RF-Score

These instructions appear as Supporting Information associated with the publication describing RF-Score, which should be cited if you use RF-Score in published work:

A machine learning approach to predicting protein-ligand binding affinity with applications to molecular docking
P.J. Ballester & J.B.O. Mitchell,
Bioinformatics, 26, 1169-1175 (2010)
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq112
PMID 20236947



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