We noticed that one important feature of DOCK Blaster was not working during an 18 hour window from Wednesday evening to Thursday afternoon.

The problem was, if you were docking a molecule that was not already in ZINC and had to be built on the fly, the job would hang indefinitely.

This same bug affected the "molecule upload" feature of ZINC.

If you have trouble in this time frame, please simply try your job again.

John

Dear ZINC users

Aronis
Chemical Block
Chemical Block Building Blocks
Enamine
Specs
AsisChem
AsisChem Building Blocks

We have also released new "by property" subsets
lead-like #1
clean drug-like #13

We are continuing to put out more updates as we can.

-- John

Dear ZINC users

We have updated the following catalogs recently in ZINC (both adds and depletes)

Apollo
Chemblock
Fluorochem
Labotest
MDPI
Pharmek
Princeton Building Blocks
TOSLab
TOSLab Building Blocks
Aronis Make-on-demand

A dozen more updates are in progress and will be reported soon.

We just got the ZINC upload feature working again today. It has been down since the cluster outage on the Nov 1st weekend. Thanks to colleagues in Mattia Falconi in Rome, Italy for bringing this to my attention.

Please tell me if something does not work. It helps me prioritize.

-- John

New Fragment-like (#2) and lead-like (#1) subsets of ZINC were released yesterday (Nov 3, 2009). These subsets are updated to include over 200,000 depletions (compound no longer for sale) and over 300,000 new compounds (newly on the market).

We are midway though our fall update. These subsets will be updated again before the end of 2009. Updates to other subsets and catalogs are in progress and will be announced as they become available.

-- John

Sometimes people ask us why we think they should use DOCK and not some other docking program. Of course, we openly admit our bias. DOCK is the program we develop and the one we know best. But that is not all. We have put together a short presentation of why we think you should consider using DOCK for your next ligand discovery project.

http://blaster.docking.org/whyUseDOCK.pdf

-- John

Our Nature paper has appeared. Please check it out!

docking.org is back up. Many, many little changes were made, so there is a good chance some things will not work. If you notice something that used to work that no longer works, please write me directly jji at cgl dot ucsf dot edu and I will try to fix it asap.

docking dot org is going off line
the hour is getting late
in just five hours it will be time
for your jobs to terminate

Neither goblins nor witches
but harddisks and switches
is where we focus our attention
this Hallowe'en

in just two days, maybe three
our servers should be up
now get back to work John