InstaDock – Hassan's Lab

About InstaDock

InstaDock is a front-end graphical user interface written in Python to perform molecular docking-based virtual high-throughput screening that can be done in just one go. It provides users a single-click interactive platform to perform automated continuous docking of large compound databases against predefined protein targets. It will also help the user to visualize and analyze the results to identify promising lead molecules. InstaDock provides a straight forward graphical user interface, and a complete suite to perform molecular docking and high-throughput virtual screening on Windows-based computers.

It employs a few standard programs for docking, molecular conversion and visualization purposes, and several Python scripts for processing and execution. It automatically detects the receptor as well as the ligand molecules in the directory. After the process, it creates a ‘Result’ folder for you containing all docked files, docking scores, top hits, their splitted conformers, and a brief write-up. Various standalone programs available in ‘Tools’ menu of InstaDock gives the user the freedom to perform ‘User-directed Docking’ and different tasks by executing individual programs as described in original publication (Click here).

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How to use InstaDock

Place the ‘InstaDock EXE’ file in the same directory as your receptor and ligand files. (The files can be of any standard chemical format i.e. PDB, SDF, MOL, MOL2 or PDBQT).
Click the ‘START’ button to initiate the automatic process of Molecular Docking. Yes, it is that easy!

Note: The single-click execution performs Blind docking by default. For site-specific OR ‘User-directed docking’, please refer to ‘Tutorials’ published in the original paper available through https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbaa279. Happy Docking!! 🙂

How to Cite

Please cite the following papers while publishing results from InstaDock:

Mohammad T, Mathur Y, Hassan MI (2021). InstaDock: A Single-click Graphical User Interface for Molecular Docking-based Virtual High-throughput Screening. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 22(4), bbaa279, https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbaa279.
Hassan NM, Alhossary AA, Mu Y, Kwoh CK (2017). Protein-ligand blind docking using QuickVina-W with inter-process spatio-temporal integration, Scientific reports, 7(1): 1-13.

You are also encouraged to cite the following references where credit is due:

Trott O, Olson AJ (2010). AutoDock Vina: improving the speed and accuracy of docking with a new scoring function, efficient optimization, and multithreading. Journal of computational chemistry, 31(2): 455-461.
O’Boyle NM, Banck M, James CA, Morley C, Vandermeersch T, Hutchison GR (2011). Open Babel: An open chemical toolbox. Journal of cheminformatics, 3(1): 33.
Sayle RA, Milner-White EJ (1995). RASMOL: biomolecular graphics for all. Trends in biochemical sciences, 20(9): 374-376.
Bernstein HJ. Recent changes to RasMol, recombining the variants (2000). Trends in biochemical sciences, 25(9): 453-455.

InstaDock development

We are always interested in adding additional functionalities to InstaDock. If you have ideas, suggestions or code that you would like to contribute, please contact us. You are encouraged to share your ideas and suggestions with us at [email protected] for the future development of InstaDock. Please do get in touch – we would like to hear from you!

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Correspondence

For any queries you can direct write to the following:
Taj ([email protected]; [email protected])
Yash ([email protected])
Dr. Hassan ([email protected])
Address for correspondence:
G-04, Srinivasan Ramanujan Block, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110025, INDIA

The Team Behind InstaDock

Taj Mohammad

National Postdoctoral Fellow

Taj is a DST SERB National Postdoctoral Fellow (N-PDF) at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi and collaboratively working with Dr. Hassan's Lab at JMI. His research interests lie in genomic and proteomic analysis over complex diseases, disease modeling, structure-based drug discovery and NGS analytics.

Yash Mathur

Master Trainee

Yash is Masters in Bioinformatics from Department of Computer Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is a programmer who codes with Python, Perl, Java, and C++. His areas of interest include Computational biology, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Md. Imtaiyaz Hassan

Principal investigator

Dr. Hassan is working as an Assistant Professor of biophysics and structural biology having unique distinction of being a Fellow of Royal Society of Biology (FRSB), U.K. and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), U.K. He has vast experience in the area of structure-based drug design and discovery.