Scoring functions of protein molecular docking models in automated systems for processing and analyzing bioinformatics data

Abstract

This review article presents a generalized, integrated classification of scoring functions for molecular docking of protein interaction models. It describes various types of scoring functions and examines relevant issues in biopharmaceuticals, medical cybernetics, computational biology and biophysics, applied mathematics. This article may be of interest to a wide range of readers, including scientists from various fields, software engineers developing automated bioinformation processing systems, lecturers in relevant topics, graduate and postgraduate students in bioinformatics, systems analysis, medical software systems research.