MDock Server
University of Missouri

MDock Server

Tutorial

1. Required upload
2. Job status
3. Results

1. Required upload

Ligand structure
The server allows users to upload a ligand structure as one of the initial structures for docking. Please note the server only recognizes the mol2 format for the ligand structure.

An example of the inputs (mol2: Progesterone):
Ligand structure: Progesterone.mol2


2. Job status

After a job is submitted, the MDock Server will immediately examine the uploaded files. A pop-up page will inform the user whether the job is successfully submitted. If not, the ERROR information will be reported on this page.
Once the job is successfully submitted, the job status is monitored on the "Queue" page. When the job is waiting for computational resource allocation, the job status is "Pending". Once the job starts to run, the status will be changed to "Running". The user will receive an email (if provided) notification after the job is completed. Then, the status will be changed to "Done" or "Error".

Note: If the user selects the option "Do not show my job on the queue page" on the submission page, the job status will not appear on the "Queue" page. In this case, the only way to know the status is through email notification.


3. Results

3.1 How to receive the results
When the job is completed, a result page will be created. There are three ways to obtain the link of the result page:
a) The link is provided on the pop-up page after the job is successfully submitted.
b) The link will be sent to the user by email when the job is completed.
c) The user can find the job on the "Queue" page through keyword search, and then click the corresponding "Job ID".

3.2 The result page
On the result page, the best binding pose of the compounds for top 10 predicted targets in our database are available for download. A mol2 file for the best pose can be downloaded through the "Result.tar" link. A number of molecular visualization programs are available such as Chimera.