AUTHOR=Krause Fabian , Voigt Karsten , Di Ventura Barbara , Öztürk Mehmet Ali TITLE=ReverseDock: a web server for blind docking of a single ligand to multiple protein targets using AutoDock Vina JOURNAL=Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences VOLUME=10 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/molecular-biosciences/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2023.1243970 DOI=10.3389/fmolb.2023.1243970 ISSN=2296-889X ABSTRACT=

Several platforms exist to perform molecular docking to computationally predict binders to a specific protein target from a library of ligands. The reverse, that is, docking a single ligand to various protein targets, can currently be done by very few web servers, which limits the search to a small set of pre-selected human proteins. However, the possibility to in silico predict which targets a compound identified in a high-throughput drug screen bind would help optimize and reduce the costs of the experimental workflow needed to reveal the molecular mechanism of action of a ligand. Here, we present ReverseDock, a blind docking web server based on AutoDock Vina specifically designed to allow users with no computational expertise to dock a ligand to 100 protein structures of their choice. ReverseDock increases the number and type of proteins a ligand can be docked to, making the task of in silico docking of a ligand to entire families of proteins straightforward. We envision ReverseDock will support researchers by providing the possibility to apply inverse docking computations using web browser. ReverseDock is available at: https://reversedock.biologie.uni-freiburg.de/