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Andrew T McNutt¹, Yanjing Li², Rocco Meli^3,4

¹Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

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The open-source molecular docking software GNINA has been updated to version 1.3. This release enhances computational efficiency and introduces covalent docking capabilities for drug design.

Keywords:

Deep learning Molecular docking Structure-based drug design

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Area of Science:

Computational chemistry
Drug discovery
Bioinformatics

Background:

Molecular docking is crucial for structure-based drug design.
Computer-aided drug design (CADD) aims to reduce drug development costs.
GNINA is an open-source molecular docking software.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce version 1.3 of the GNINA molecular docking software.
To enhance computational efficiency and expand docking capabilities.
To facilitate high-throughput virtual screening.

Main Methods:

Updated the deep learning framework to PyTorch for improved computational efficiency.
Retrained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) scoring functions on the CrossDocked2020 v1.3 dataset.
Introduced knowledge-distilled CNN scoring functions and covalent docking functionality.

Main Results:

Achieved more computationally efficient docking through PyTorch integration.
Enabled high-throughput virtual screening with new CNN scoring functions.
Expanded GNINA's scope with the addition of covalent docking.

Conclusions:

GNINA 1.3 offers enhanced support for covalent docking and improved deep learning models.
The updated software facilitates more effective molecular docking and virtual screening.
GNINA continues to be a user-friendly, open-source framework for drug discovery.