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. 2007 Nov 26;153(Suppl 1):S7–S26. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0707515

Table 1. Reported docking programmes and, when available, the latest version number, the key references and web sites.

Program Reference(s) Website Search algorithma
Affinity N/A www.accelrys.com/products/datasheets/i2_affinity_data.pdf MC
ADAM (Yamada and Itai, 1993; Mizutani et al., 1994, 2006) www.immd.co.jp/en/product_2.html RBD
Autodock 4.0 (Morris et al., 1998; Osterberg et al., 2002) autodock.scripps.edu/ GA
CDOCKER (Wu et al., 2003a) N/A MD-SA
CHARMM (Vieth et al., 1998b, 1998a) www.charmm.org/ GA and MC
CLIX (Lawrence and Davis, 1992) N/A RBD
DARWIN (Taylor and Burnett, 2000) N/A GA
DIVALI (Clark and Ajay, 1995) , N/A GA
DOCK 6 (Oshiro et al., 1995; Knegtel et al., 1997; Kang et al., 2004; Moustakas et al., 2006) dock.compbio.ucsf.edu/ IC
DockIt N/A www.metaphorics.com/products/dockit.html N/A
DockVision 1.0.3 (Hart and Read, 1992) , www.dockvision.com MC
DoMCoSAR (Vieth and Cummins, 2000) N/A SA
DragHOME (Schafferhans and Klebe, 2001) N/A RBD
EADock (Grosdidier et al., 2007) N/A EA
eHiTs (Zsoldos et al., 2006) www.simbiosys.ca/ehits/index.html RBD of fragments followed by reconstruction
EUDOC (Pang et al., 2001) , N/A RBD
FDS (Taylor et al., 2003) N/A MC
DAIM-SEED-FFLD (Majeux et al., 1999; Budin et al., 2001; Kolb and Caflisch, 2006) biocroma.uzh.ch/SDL/DAIM-SEED-FFLD_agreement.pdf RBD
FITTED (Corbeil et al., 2007) www.fitted.ca GA
FlexX 2.2 (Rarey et al., 1996) www.biosolveit.de/ IC
FlexE (Rarey et al., 1999; Claußen et al., 2001)    
FlipDock (formerly pyDock) (Zhao and Sanner, 2007) www.scripps.edu/~yongzhao/FLIPDock/ GA
FLOG (Miller et al., 1994) N/A IC
FRED (McGann et al., 2003) www.eyesopen.com/products/applications/fred.html RBD
FTDock (Gabb et al., 1997) www.bmm.icnet.uk/docking/ftdock.html RBD
GAMBLER (Charifson et al., 1999) N/A GA
GasDock (Li et al., 2004) N/A GA
GEMDOCK (Yang and Chen, 2004) N/A EA
GlamDock (Tietze and Apostolakis, 2007) N/A MC/SA
Glide 4.0 (Friesner et al., 2004; Sherman et al., 2006) www.schrodinger.com/ProductDescription.php?mID=6&sID=6&cID=0 Hierarchical filters and MC
GOLD 3.1 (Verdonk et al., 2003, 2005) www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/products/life_sciences/gold/ GA
Hammerhead (Welch et al., 1996) N/A IC
HADDOCK (Dominguez et al., 2003) www.nmr.chem.uu.nl/haddock/ SA
HierDOCK/HierVLS (Floriano et al., 2004; Trabanino et al., 2004) N/A IC
ICM (Abagyan et al., 1994b; Totrov and Abagyan, 1997) www.molsoft.com/docking.html MC
LibDock (Diller and Merz, 2001) N/A MA
LIDAEUS (Wu et al., 2003b) N/A MA
LIGIN (Sobolev et al., 1996) N/A RBD
MacDOCK (Fradera et al., 2004) N/A IC
MCDOCK (Liu and Wang, 1999) N/A MC
MolDock (Thomsen and Christensen, 2006) N/A DE
MVP N/A N/A IC
PatchDOCK (Schneidman-Duhovny et al., 2005) N/A Shape complementarity
PAS-Dock (Tøndel et al., 2006) N/A TS
PhDOCK (Joseph-McCarthy et al., 2003) N/A MA
Ph4DOCK (Goto et al., 2004) N/A MA
PIPER (Kozakov et al., 2006) N/A Fast Fourier transform
Plants (Korb et al., 2006) N/A Ant colony optimisation
Prodock (Trosset and Scheraga, 1999) N/A MC
PRO_LEADS (Murray et al., 1999) N/A TS
ProPose (Seifert, 2005) N/A IC
PSI_DOCK (Pei et al., 2006) N/A GA with TS
Q-fit (Jackson, 2002) N/A MA
Quantum N/A www.q-lead.com/cnt/quantum N/A
QXP/Flo+ (McMartin and Bohacek, 1997) N/A MC
RiboDock (Morley and Afshar, 2004) N/A MC
ROSETTALIGAND (Meiler and Baker, 2006) N/A MC
SANDOCK (Burkhard et al., 1998) N/A MA
SDOCKER (Wu and Vieth, 2004) N/A Random walk
SLIDE (Schnecke and Kuhn, 2000; Zavodszky and Kuhn, 2005) N/A IC
SKELGEN (Alberts et al., 2005) N/A IC
SODOCK (Chen et al., 2007) N/A Swarm Optimisation
SG-DOCK/SP-DOCK (Fradera et al., 2000) N/A IC
Surflex 2.1 (Jain, 2003, 2007) N/A IC with MA
Yucca (Choi, 2005) N/A MC

Abbreviation: N/A, not available.

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DE, differential evolution; EA, evolutionary algorithm; GA, genetic algorithm; IC, incremental construction; MA, matching algorithm; MD, molecular dynamics; RBD, rigid-body docking; SA, simulated annealing; TS, Tabu search.