Molecular docking

Molecular docking is the process of posing and scoring small molecules in the binding sites of macromolecules, usually proteins. In low throughput, it can be used for understanding a structure activity relationship series. In high throughput, also called virtual screening, it can be used for ranking a database of small, often drug-like molecules from best to worst according to some scoring scheme. Top scoring compounds are inspected for purchase or, in the case of a virtual library, synthesis.

DOCK is the implementation of molecular docking and virtual screening that we develop and use at UCSF.