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Is it possible to perform blind docking using GOLD?

Solution

Unfortunately GOLD is not ideally suited to cases where no binding site is to be designated.

GOLD currently has a built-in upper limit on the maximum size of a binding site which is 20Å from a specified point or ligand.

The only approach is to split the protein into multiple binding sites and carry out individual docking experiments on all of these.​