[Owl-devel] new interface ResidueContactScoringFunction

Ioannis Filippis filippis at gmail.com
Fri Apr 30 08:22:04 EDT 2010


Hi Henning,

- I'm still not sure about this normalization business. Thinking about
> how a scoring function would be
> used in CMView, the scores will have to be normalized to the [0,1]
> range. Is it reasonable to expect
> the scoring function to return normalized scores for individual
> contacts? How about scores for the whole structure, there
> normalization does not make sense, or does it? Or is it better to drop
> normalization altogether and let the calling application do it if
> necessary (that would require to obtain scores for all possible pairs
> to get the min/max values)?
>

I would go for the last option. Normalization could be a general
class/function/... for whatever value needed to be used for CMView.

Cheers,
Ioannis
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