Docking@Home Explained

Operating System:	Linux, macOS, and Windows
Platform:	BOINC
Developer:	University of Delaware
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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.^[1] The ultimate aim was the development of new pharmaceutical drugs.

The project was retired on May 23, 2014.^[2]

See also

• List of volunteer computing projects

Further reading

• Web site: Computer Idle? Now You Can Donate Its Time to Find a Cure for Major Diseases . Newswise . June 16, 2009 . 2009-07-27.

Notes and References

1. Book: Estrada . Trlce . Armen . Roger . Taufer . Michela . Proceedings of the First ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology . Automatic selection of near-native protein-ligand conformations using a hierarchical clustering and volunteer computing . 2010-08-02 . https://doi.org/10.1145/1854776.1854807 . BCB '10 . New York, NY, USA . Association for Computing Machinery . 204–213 . 10.1145/1854776.1854807 . 978-1-4503-0438-2. 6040735 .
2. Web site: Docking@Home is Retiring. 2014-06-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20141017051439/http://docking.cis.udel.edu/about/project/news.php#285. 2014-10-17. dead.