Manuals and Tutorials

In this section you will have some help manuals, instructions, example files and tutorials to run rDock with most of its features.
For running the Validation Sets used for comparing rDock with other reference docking programs, please visit the following section.

For the moment, you can check:

  • User Guide: full documentation of all rDock software package and methods.
  • Getting Started: installation and validation instructions for first-time users.
  • Validation Sets: instructions and examples for re-running the validation sets we have carried out.
  • How to calculate ROC Curves: Tutorial for generating ROC Curves and other statistics after running rDock docking jobs.

Installation in 3 steps

First of all, you will need to install several packages before compiling and running rDock:

  • gcc and g++ compilers version > 3.3.
  • make.
  • cppunit and cppunit-devel.
  • popt and popt-devel.

Afterwards, download the source code compressed file or get it by SVN in Downloads section.
Then, run the following commands:

tar -xvzf rDock_2013.1_src.tar.gz
cd rDock_2013.1_src/build/

and, for 32 bits computers:

make linux-g++

for 64 bits computers:

make linux-g++-64

After compiling successfully, type the following command to make a test and check that your compiled version works good and the results are correct.

make test

If the test has succeed, you are done, enjoy using rDock!
Otherwise, please check your dependencies and all the previous commands or go to Support Section to ask for help.

Just as a concluding remark, don’t forget to set the necessary environmental variables for running rDock in the command line (for example, in bash shell):

export RBT_ROOT=/path/to/rDock/installation/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$RBT_ROOT/lib
export PATH=$PATH:$RBT_ROOT/bin