Let's Dock: A Smart Platform for Molecular Docking

In the past few years, several docking tools have been developed for molecular dockings such as LeDock, rDock, AutoDock Vina, AutoDock, UCSF DOCK, GOLD, Glide, Surflex-Dock, LigandFit and MOEDock. Among these, AutoDock Vina has been widely used by academia for molecular docking. This tool performs docking of a ligand into a protein by seven steps. For docking analysis of several ligands, AutoDock Vina is a time-consuming tool. In order to make AutoDock Vina more efficient and smart way, a platform has been developed in this study. It is designated "Let's Dock". By using this platform, we can perform a docking analysis of several ligands into a protein with AutoDock Vina by just submitting ligands and protein pdb files. Apart from thermodynamic data analysis this platform also calculates descriptors and Lipinski's rule parameters (Rule of Five) of a ligand by a single click.