# SHREC 2025: Protein surface shape retrieval including electrostatic potential

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12976 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.12976/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
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- First posted on arXiv 16 Sep 2025.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

This SHREC 2025 track dedicated to protein surface shape retrieval involved 9 participating teams. We evaluated the performance in retrieval of 15 proposed methods on a large dataset of 11,555 protein surfaces with calculated electrostatic potential (a key molecular surface descriptor). The performance in retrieval of the proposed methods was evaluated through different metrics (Accuracy, Balanced accuracy, F1 score, Precision and Recall). The best retrieval performance was achieved by the proposed methods that used the electrostatic potential complementary to molecular surface shape. This observation was also valid for classes with limited data which highlights the importance of taking into account additional molecular surface descriptors.