Installing SMINA on Ubuntu (Linux).

SMINA is a fork of AutoDock Vina supporting better scoring function and high-performance energy minimization [1]. In this article, we are going to install SMINA on Ubuntu (Linux).

Preparing system

Let’s update and upgrade our system first.

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

Downloading SMINA

Download SMINA from here. Change to the directory where you have downloaded the file. Here, we have downloaded in ‘Downloads’. You will see a file named ‘smina.static‘

$ cd Downloads/

Installing SMINA

Give permission to the downloaded file.

$ chmod +x smina.static

Now, you can run this file as shown below.

$ ./smina.static

It will display the usage.

References

1. https://sourceforge.net/projects/smina/