Under some circumstances when using the GOLD API there may be a discrepancy between the calculated fitness score and the final fitness score displayed in the ligand log file. For example, the ligand log file may contain something like this:
GOLD fitness breakdown of terms:
Fitness = S(hb_ext) + 1.3750*S(vdw_ext) + S(hb_int) + 1.0000*S(vdw_int) + S(cust)
Fitness | S(hb_ext) | S(vdw_ext) | S(hb_int) | S(vdw_int) | S(cust) |
73.02 | 17.94 | 28.28 | 0.00 | -3.73 | 3.32 |
The S(cust) term may have been incorrectly included in the final fitness score more than once. Such a discrepancy could be due to a known issue with the GOLD API. For reasons of efficiency, the fitness is not always recalculated, but sometimes simply copied if no changes have been made to an individual during a previous iteration of the GA. To resolve this issue, GOLD must be prevented from re-adding the custom_score term.
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