Visual Inspection: Visual inspection of docking poses complements the quantitative assessments provided by scoring functions. This qualitative analysis involves manually examining the docked conformations of a ligand within the binding site of a protein to ensure that the interactions are plausible and consistent with known biochemical and pharmacological data. While scoring functions provide a numerical estimate of binding affinity, they can sometimes be misleading due to their inherent limitations, such as the inability to accurately model solvent effects or protein flexibility. Visual inspection helps to confirm that the top-scoring poses are chemically and physically reasonable .