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1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

   PepPCBench is a Comprehensive Benchmarking Framework for Protein–Peptide Complex Structure Prediction

   Zhai, Zhao, Wang et al. · Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling · 2025

   The authors built PepPCBench, a benchmark of 261 protein–peptide complexes, and used it to compare five deep learning structure predictors and assess how well their confidence scores track binding affinity.

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   1. UncheckedComparing five deep learning tools on protein–peptide complexes shows performance differences, linked to peptide length, flexibility and similarity to training data.“Our benchmarking reveals meaningful performance differences among these methods and highlights the influence of peptide length, conformational flexibility, and training set similarity on prediction accuracy.”
   2. UncheckedAlphaFold3 predicts protein–peptide structures well, but its confidence scores correlate poorly with experimentally measured binding affinities.“While AF3 shows strong performance in structure prediction, further analysis indicates that confidence metrics correlate poorly with experimental binding affinities, underscoring the need for improved scoring strategies and generalizability.”