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\subsection*{Dataset}  The specific modality of fragment-oriented molecular shapes requires the creation of a custom benchmark for assessing the virtual screening performance of the method. In order to construct the shape constraints a receptor-ligand structure is required, and, in order to screen a library, all compounds in the library must contain the desired anchor fragment.   We use the Maximum Unbiased Validation (MUV) dataset\cite{Rohrer2009} as a starting point. MUV includes sets of 30 active and 15000 decoy compounds for each of 17 targets. Compounds are selected from PubChem bioactivity data to both reduce the similarity of actives (which introduces analogue bias\cite{Good2008}) and increase the similarity between actives and decoys (which helps prevent artificial enrichment\cite{Verdonk2004}). MUV is also noteworthy in that the decoys were all assessed to be inactive in the initial high-throughput screen against the target providing some measure of experimental evidence against the inclusion of false negatives.  Of the 17 targets in the MUV dataset, we identified 10 that had a receptor-ligand structure in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) where the ligand had sub-$\mu$M affinity. The interaction diagrams of these structures are shown in Figure~\ref{targets}. For each of these structures we identified interacting fragments that could potentially serve as anchor fragments. The selection of the anchor fragment for each complex is necessarily dependent upon the input dataset (the fragment must be sufficiently common to both the actives and decoys). However, we chose to not define a custom anchor fragment for each complex that matched the greatest number of actives while rejecting the most decoys. Instead, we identified a smaller set of shared anchor fragments representing common chemical groups. This approach is more in-line with our expectation that prospective applications of fragment oriented shape matching will, at least at first, use pre-built libraries anchored on common fragments.