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Docking@Home

Docking@Home was a volunteer computing project hosted by the University of Delaware and running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform. It models protein-ligand docking using the CHARMM program. Volunteer computing allows an extensive search of protein-ligand docking conformations and selection of near-native ligand conformations are achieved by using ligand based hierarchical clustering. The ultimate aim was the development of new pharmaceutical drugs.

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Docking@Home
Developer(s)University of Delaware
Operating systemLinux, macOS, and Windows1
PlatformBOINC
Websitedocking.cis.udel.edu

Docking@Home was a volunteer computing project hosted by the University of Delaware and running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform. It models protein-ligand docking using the CHARMM program. Volunteer computing allows an extensive search of protein-ligand docking conformations and selection of near-native ligand conformations are achieved by using ligand based hierarchical clustering.2 The ultimate aim was the development of new pharmaceutical drugs.

The project was retired on May 23, 2014.1

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  1. "Docking@Home is Retiring". Archived from the original on 2014-10-17. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
  2. Estrada, Trlce; Armen, Roger; Taufer, Michela (2010-08-02). "Automatic selection of near-native protein-ligand conformations using a hierarchical clustering and volunteer computing". Proceedings of the First ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. BCB '10. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 204–213. doi:10.1145/1854776.1854807. ISBN 978-1-4503-0438-2. S2CID 6040735.
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