GPU accelerated molecular docking with parallel genetic algorithm

Molecular docking is a widely used tool in Computer-aided Drug Design and Discovery. Due to the complexity of simulating the chemical events when two molecules interact, highly accelerated molecular docking programs are of great interest and importance for practical use. In this paper, we present a...

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Main Authors: Ouyang, Xuchang, Kwoh, Chee Keong
Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98174
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12426
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Molecular docking is a widely used tool in Computer-aided Drug Design and Discovery. Due to the complexity of simulating the chemical events when two molecules interact, highly accelerated molecular docking programs are of great interest and importance for practical use. In this paper, we present a GPU accelerated docking program implemented with CUDA. The hardware-enabled texture interpolation is employed for fast energy evaluation. Two types of parallel genetic algorithms are mapped to the CUDA computing architecture and used for the search of optimal docking result. Comparing to the CPU implementation, the GPU accelerated docking program achieved significant speedup while producing comparable results to the CPU version. The source code is made public at http://code.google.com/p/cudock/.