 Welcome to Docking@HomeDocking@Home is a project which uses Internet-connected computers to perform scientific calculations that aid in the creation of new and improved medicines. The project aims to help cure diseases such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Docking@Home is a collaboration between the University of Delaware, The Scripps Research Institute, and the University of California - Berkeley. It is part of the Dynamically Adaptive Protein-Ligand Docking System project and is supported by the National Science Foundation. How Does It Work?Before new drugs can be produced for laboratory testing, researchers must create molecular models and simulate their interactions to reveal possible candidates for effective drugs. This simulation is called docking. The combinations of molecules and their binding orientations are infinite in number. Simulating as many combinations as possible requires a tremendous amount of computing power. In order to reduce costs, researchers have decided that an effective means of generating this computing power is to distribute the tasks across a large number of computers. How Can I Help?By downloading a free program developed at University of California - Berkeley called BOINC, you can contribute your computer's idle processing cycles to the Docking@Home project. It's safe, easy to setup, and runs only when you want it to so it won't affect your ability to use your computer. If you are interested in finding out more information, you can read more about the project and the science behind it, or if you are ready to help, you can get started below. 
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NewsD@H third phase: TrypsinOctober 19, 2009 18:07 ESTWe are starting the distribution of trypsin complexes using initial configurations that are at least 5A away from the crystal structure. With this set of experiments we expect to prove that our preprocessing algorithm can find native-like docking structures despite the initial conditions of the docking. D@H third phaseAugust 24, 2009 11:58 ESTSince we started tesing HIV1 we expect that the workunits will be shorter than our previous batch. We have also detected download errors in some machines, we are investigating if this issue has something to do with the new complexes or are more a BOINC-related issue. D@H third phaseAugust 26, 2009 11:45 ESTToday D@H starts its 3rd phase of validation. This time we will dock HIV1 protease, Trypsin, and P38alpha proteins using ligands with very different initial conformations than those in the crystal complexes. With these experiments we expect to prove that by combining our prostprocessing with our sampling capabilities, D@H is able to find near-native structures even if the initial conditions are no ... (more)
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