Docking
Virtual Screening: Frequently Asked Questions & Answers for Starters
Virtual screening can be difficult for beginners. Here are some FAQs for starters that can help you overcome small issues.
In this article, I have collected some of the most Frequently Asked Questions while performing virtual screening. You have to consider a lot of factors before performing an actual docking on a protein with multiple ligands.
Question: How to download compounds for virtual screening?
Question: How to know which database to download for virtual screening?
Question: How to prepare multiple ligands for virtual screening?
Question: How to know the binding pocket of a predicted structure of a protein for VS?
Question: How do I define ligand names for virtual screening?
Question: Error: Could not open file ligands.txt
Question: Error: Could not open file “protein.pdbqt” for reading
These are a few FAQs for beginners in bioinformatics. If you have any other query then feel free to post a question in our community.
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Bioinformatics Programming
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Virtual Screening (VS) is one of the important techniques in bioinformatics. It can be easily performed using Autodock Vina. We have provided detailed articles on this topic. In this article, we are trying to answer some FAQs for beginners. (more…)
![[Tutorial] How to perform docking of zinc metalloproteins using Autodock Vina?](https://bioinformaticsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/zn.jpg)
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