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LightDock	splash	/	overlay_color overlay_filter overlay_image actions #000 0.5 /assets/images/code.png label url Download Latest Release https://github.com/lightdock/lightdock/releases/latest label url Online server https://server.lightdock.org/	The open-source macromolecular docking framework written in Python ([and Rust](https://github.com/lightdock/lightdock-rust))	excerpt *Protein-Protein, Protein-Nucleic Acids and Protein-Peptide docking made easy*

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Installation

LightDock is distributed as a PyPi package, installation is as simply as executing the following from the command line:

pip install lightdock

For members of the SBGrid consortium, LightDock can be also installed using the CLI client:

sbgrid-cli install lightdock

Alternative ways to install LightDock can be found in the official GitHub repository.

Tutorials

LightDock is able to model different binary systems such as protein-protein, protein-DNA, protein-RNA, membraned-associated or protein-peptide complexes.

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License

{: .align-left} LightDock is free and open-source under license GPLv3 and it has been integrated in different packages and pipelines.

Source code

{: .align-left} Browse the source code from the official repository and the Rust faster version.