Paper Info
Title
DockingApp: a user friendly interface for facilitated docking simulations with AutoDock Vina.
Abstract
Molecular docking is a powerful technique that helps uncover the structural and energetic bases of the interaction between macromolecules and substrates, endogenous and exogenous ligands, and inhibitors. Moreover, this technique plays a pivotal role in accelerating the screening of large libraries of compounds for drug development purposes. The need to promote community-driven drug development efforts, especially as far as neglected diseases are concerned, calls for user-friendly tools to allow non-expert users to exploit the full potential of molecular docking. Along this path, here is described the implementation of DockingApp, a freely available, extremely user-friendly, platform-independent application for performing docking simulations and virtual screening tasks using AutoDock Vina. DockingApp sports an intuitive graphical user interface which greatly facilitates both the input phase and the analysis of the results, which can be visualized in graphical form using the embedded JMol applet. The application comes with the DrugBank set of more than 1400 ready-to-dock, FDA-approved drugs, to facilitate virtual screening and drug repurposing initiatives. Furthermore, other databases of compounds such as ZINC, available also in AutoDock format, can be readily and easily plugged in.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10822-016-0006-1
Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
AutoDock Vina,Drug repurposing,Graphic interface,Molecular docking,Virtual screening,Wrapper
Docking (dog),Protein–ligand docking,Chemistry,Molecular Docking Simulation,Graphical user interface,Human–computer interaction,Java applet,Bioinformatics,Virtual screening,AutoDock,DrugBank
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
31
2
0920-654X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.40
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elena Di Muzio120.40
Daniele Toti210513.86
Fabio Polticelli3688.97