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Accelerating virtual high-throughput ligand docking: Current technology and case study on a petascale supercomputer

  • Sally R. Ellingson
  • , Sivanesan Dakshanamurthy
  • , Milton Brown
  • , Jeremy C. Smith
  • , Jerome Baudry

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Abstract

In this paper, we give the current state of high-throughput virtual screening. We describe a case study of using a task-parallel Message Passing Interface version of AutoDock4 to run a virtual high-throughput screen of one million compounds on the Jaguar Cray XK6 Supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. We include a description of scripts developed to increase the efficiency of the predocking file preparation and postdocking analysis. A detailed tutorial, scripts, and source code for this Message Passing Interface version of AutoDock4 are available online at http://www.bio.utk.edu/baudrylab/ autodockmpi.htm.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1268-1277
Number of pages10
JournalConcurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Volume26
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 25 2014

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Institutes of Health (NIH)1KL2RR031974

    Keywords

    • automated molecular docking
    • drug discovery
    • high-performance computing
    • virtual high-throughput screening

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Theoretical Computer Science
    • Software
    • Computer Science Applications
    • Computer Networks and Communications
    • Computational Theory and Mathematics

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