“…In the past several years, the medicinal chemistry modeling studies of ERb ligands have been performed by different authors, including docking and quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) techniques (Barrett et al, 2008;Wolohan and Reichert, 2007;Beeley and Sage, 2003;Norman et al, 2006;Henke et al, 2002;Taha et al, 2010;Asikainen et al, 2006;Li et al, 2006;Zhang et al, 2011;Waller, 2004;Xiao et al, 2008). Although X-ray crystal structures of ERb are available, docking approaches are not accurate to predict binding affinities of ERb ligands because of some serious problems (Barrett et al, 2008;Wolohan and Reichert, 2007;Beeley and Sage, 2003; Luan et al (2008) reported that accurate prediction of binding affinities of aryl diphenolic azoles remains difficult and the classification of binding affinities of diverse compounds to some extent may be feasible.…”