Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Tutorial of assessing vinardo score of ligands based on the grid file of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro by MolAICal

1. Introduction
In this tutorial, the SARS-CoV-2 Mpro which leads to the rapid spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) throughout the world is selected as the example target. The vinardo score of ligands is calculated based on the grid file of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro. This example can be generalized to other proteins.  Here, MolAICal (https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbaa161) is employed for this tutorial.


2. Materials
2.1. Software requirement
1) MolAICal: https://molaical.github.io

2.2. Example files
1) All the necessary tutorial files are downloaded from:
https://github.com/MolAICal/tutorials/tree/master/008-vinardoScore


For more detailed procedures, please go to https://molaical.github.io, and click the section named "Tutorials" in the left part of webpage. Once "Tutorials" open, you can freely find pdf file about this tutorial (see Figure 1):
                                                Figure 1

You can repeat this tutorial according to the content of pdf file.