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 ## Dataset Summary
 DecoyDB is a curated dataset of high-resolution protein-ligand complexes and their associated decoy structures. It is designed to support research on graph contrastive learning, binding affinity prediction, and structure-based drug discovery. The dataset is derived from experimentally resolved complexes and refined to ensure data quality.
 
+Predicting the binding affinity of protein-ligand complexes plays a vital role in drug discovery. Unfortunately, progress has been hindered by the lack of large-scale and high-quality binding affinity labels. The widely used PDBbind dataset has fewer than 20K labeled complexes. Self-supervised learning, especially graph contrastive learning (GCL), provides a unique opportunity to break the barrier by pretraining graph neural network models based on vast unlabeled complexes and fine-tuning the models on much fewer labeled complexes. However, the problem faces unique challenges, including a lack of a comprehensive unlabeled dataset with well-defined positive/negative complex pairs and the need to design GCL algorithms that incorporate the unique characteristics of such data. To fill the gap, we propose DecoyDB, a large-scale, structure-aware dataset specifically designed for self-supervised GCL on protein–ligand complexes. DecoyDB consists of high-resolution ground truth complexes and diverse decoy structures with computationally generated binding poses that range from realistic to suboptimal. Each decoy is annotated with a Root Mean Square Deviation (RMSD) from the native pose. We further design a customized GCL framework to pretrain graph neural networks based on DecoyDB and fine-tune the models with labels from PDBbind. Extensive experiments confirm that models pretrained with DecoyDB achieve superior accuracy, sample efficiency, and generalizability.
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 ## Data Structure
 Each protein-ligand complex is stored in a nested directory under DecoyDB/, using the format:
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