[chimerax-users] Missing Vina on ChimeraX

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Luigi,
ChimeraX does not have an Autodock Vina interface (a tool to run Autodock Vina).

Although Chimera has an Autodock Vina interface, the Autodock Vina program is not part of Chimera.  Instead this Chimera tool would send your data out to an Autodock Vina web service run by another group, and then get the results back and display them.  That Autodock Vina web service is no  longer available.  With Chimera, however, you can still use its Autodock Vina interface if you also separately download Autodock Vina and install it on your own computer.  However, even this is not recommended because the Chimera interface only allows a very small amount of sampling.  For most scientific research, you should not use Chimera to run the docking, but just instead use Autodock Vina directly.  This is explained in the Chimera help page for its Autodock Vina tool:
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/vina/vina.html>

After you get docking results from Autodock Vina, however, then you can view/analyze them using either Chimera (ViewDock tool) or ChimeraX (ViewDockX).
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/viewdock/framevd.html>
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/tools/viewdockx.html>

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Mar 12, 2023, at 1:04 AM, Luigi Marongiu via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear sir or madam,
> I am using UCSF ChimeraX version 1.5 (2022-11-24). I have been trying to use AutoDock Vina but there is no such command in my version.
> How do I install it into ChimeraX (as shown in many tutorials, Vina is part of Chimera)?
> Thank you.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Luigi Marongiu
> Ph.D., B.Sc. (Hons.)