GPU-Accelerated Drug Discovery with Docking on the Summit Supercomputer: Porting, Optimization, and Application to COVID-19 Research

Autor: Mathialakan Thavappiragasam, Oscar Hernandez, Josh V. Vermaas, Aaron Scheinberg, Ada Sedova, Andreas Koch, Duncan Poole, Jeremy C. Smith, Leonardo Solis-Vasquez, Stefano Forli, Andreas F. Tillack, Rupesh Agarwal, Scott LeGrand, Diogo Santos-Martins, Jeff Larkin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: ArXiv
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Popis: Protein-ligand docking is an in silico tool used to screen potential drug compounds for their ability to bind to a given protein receptor within a drug-discovery campaign. Experimental drug screening is expensive and time consuming, and it is desirable to carry out large scale docking calculations in a high-throughput manner to narrow the experimental search space. Few of the existing computational docking tools were designed with high performance computing in mind. Therefore, optimizations to maximize use of high-performance computational resources available at leadership-class computing facilities enables these facilities to be leveraged for drug discovery. Here we present the porting, optimization, and validation of the AutoDock-GPU program for the Summit supercomputer, and its application to initial compound screening efforts to target proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Databáze: OpenAIRE