target binding site. Characterisation of the binding behaviour plays an important role in rational design of drugs as well as to elucidate fundamental biochemical processes. Hence, docking is useful to discover new ligand for a target by screening large virtual compound libraries and as a start for ligand optimization or investigation of mechanism of action.

Definition of problem

One can think of molecular docking as a problem of "lock-and-key",

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