DockM8 currently supports ten different consensus methods. To give the user flexibility and the ability to adapt the protocol to the target under study, we included both traditional and more modern consensus strategies. All the methods described below operate on the poses selected by the methods described above and use the scores from the scoring functions as variables. All such scores are standardized using min-max standardization before calculating the consensus scores. Figure below provides a visual representation of the various consensus strategies. For each consensus method described below, there are two variants: *_best and *_avg. The *_best variant considers only the pose with the best consensus score for the final scoring (for each molecule ID). The *_avg variant takes the average consensus score of all the selected poses for a given molecule for the final consensus. Additionally, for ECR, there are two more variants: avg_ECR and avg_R_ECR, which are explained in their respective section. See Figure for a visual explanation of these methods.