Docking@Home is a collaborative project that aims to accomplish both
bioscience and computer science goals. From the
bioscience point of view, the project aims to further
knowledge of the atomic details of protein-ligand
interactions and, by doing so, will
search for
insights into the discovery of novel
pharmaceuticals. From the computer science point of
view, this project aims to
extend volunteer computing
to enable adaptive multi-scale modeling of the docking
applications: different models that represent the
same phenomena in nature with different level of accuracy
and resource requirements will be chosen at run-time
based on results collected so far and characteristics of
the protein-ligand complex. Docking@Home involves
collaboration among the University of Delaware, The
Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), and the University of
California - Berkeley and is powered by
BOINC. Docking@Home is part of the
DAPLDS project (or Dynamically
Adaptive Protein-Ligand Docking System project) and is
supported by the National Science Foundation
(NSF).