# Docking@Home

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**Docking@Home** was a [volunteer computing](/source/Volunteer_computing) project hosted by the [University of Delaware](/source/University_of_Delaware) and running on the [Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)](/source/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing) software platform. It models [protein](/source/Protein)-[ligand](/source/Ligand_(biochemistry)) [docking](/source/Docking_(molecular)) using the [CHARMM](/source/CHARMM) program. Volunteer computing allows an extensive search of protein-ligand docking conformations and selection of near-native ligand conformations are achieved by using ligand based hierarchical clustering.[2] The ultimate aim was the development of new [pharmaceutical drugs](/source/Pharmaceutical_drug).

The project was retired on May 23, 2014.[1]

## See also

- [List of volunteer computing projects](/source/List_of_volunteer_computing_projects)

## References

1. ["Docking@Home is Retiring"](https://web.archive.org/web/20141017051439/http://docking.cis.udel.edu/about/project/news.php#285). Archived from [the original](http://docking.cis.udel.edu/about/project/news.php#285) on 2014-10-17. Retrieved 2014-06-15.

1. Estrada, Trlce; Armen, Roger; Taufer, Michela (2010-08-02). ["Automatic selection of near-native protein-ligand conformations using a hierarchical clustering and volunteer computing"](https://doi.org/10.1145/1854776.1854807). *Proceedings of the First ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology*. BCB '10. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 204–213. [doi:10.1145/1854776.1854807](https://doi.org/10.1145/1854776.1854807). ISBN 978-1-4503-0438-2. [S2CID 6040735](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6040735)

## Further reading

- ["Computer Idle? Now You Can Donate Its Time to Find a Cure for Major Diseases"](http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/553414/). Newswise. June 16, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-27.

## External links

- [Docking@Home screensaver video](https://www.youtube.com/gC_2zu2efY4) on YouTube

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