There is a series of applications that are key to many in some special communities. The availability of such in Debian, with accompanying helper applications, may be sufficient reason to make people adopt Debian (or its decendents) as their next Operating System. One such application is AutoDock.

When we are speaking about AutoDock, we are speaking about many different things:

So, Debian has all these packages, currently in Sid. The Debianisation is maintained together with many others in the DebianMed SCM system.

For an overview on the acceptance of this package, please refer to the popularity-contest page ([http://popcon.debian.org http://popcon.debian.org]). An aquivalent page exists for Ubuntu, but their not so comfortable user interface stimulates the preference of the shell as follows:

It should be noted, that the number of Ubuntu installations is higher than those on Debian. My respect. Many thanks go to Charles for the wget Ubuntu GUI substite. External to Debian there is to thank:

That said, the developers of AutoDock and the MGLtools need to defend the public money that goes into their development by indicating the distribution and acceptance of their work in the community. The availability of these packages are certainly in the strong interest of their public funding agencies, but please