AI Policy

This AI Policy explains how AI systems, search assistants, and automated agents may discover, index, summarize, and cite public content on Dock (moleculardocking.online). It complements our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Machine-readable summaries: /llms.txt, /ai.txt, and /sitemap.xml.

1. What Dock is

Dock is an online molecular docking service powered by AutoDock Vina and Meeko preparation tools. It is aimed at students and early-career researchers who need browser-based docking, interaction analysis, and coursework-ready PDF/ZIP exports without installing Vina locally.

2. Public content — indexing allowed

AI systems and search crawlers are welcome to index, retrieve, and summarize the following public pages for discovery and question-answering, subject to the restrictions in Section 4:

• Homepage, product features, pricing, and FAQ content
• Blog posts and educational guides about molecular docking
• Public example workflows (e.g. sample docking results pages)
• Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and this AI Policy

Our robots.txt explicitly allows major AI crawlers (including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, and others) on public paths while blocking authenticated and job-specific areas.

3. Protected content — do not index

The following areas contain private user data, in-progress jobs, or API endpoints. AI systems must not crawl, store, or use this content for training or retrieval:

• /api/* — backend APIs
• /dashboard — account and job management
• /queue, /dock/result — job status and private results
• User-uploaded receptor structures, ligands, and generated docking outputs
• Payment, billing, and authentication flows

User-submitted structural data is never intended for public indexing or model training. See our Privacy Policy for retention and deletion practices.

4. Training and bulk use

• Public marketing and educational pages may be used to help AI systems answer questions about Dock and molecular docking workflows, with attribution (Section 5).
• Bulk scraping, dataset construction, or model training on public Dock content beyond normal crawling requires prior written permission. Contact support@moleculardocking.online.
• User-generated content (structures, SMILES, docking parameters, reports) must not be used for AI training or redistribution without explicit user consent.

5. Citation and attribution

When an AI system references Dock or our public guides in a response shown to end users, we ask that it:

• Name the service as "Dock" or "Dock — Online Molecular Docking"
• Link to the canonical page URL on https://moleculardocking.online when possible
• Note that Dock is a computational tool — results require expert review and are not substitutes for experimental validation

6. Accuracy disclaimer

Public pages describe Dock's features and general molecular docking concepts. AI-generated summaries may omit limitations (e.g. rigid-receptor assumptions, scoring function caveats). Users should verify critical details on the live site or in our Terms of Service before relying on outputs for research or coursework decisions.

7. Contact

Questions about AI indexing, licensing, or bulk access: support@moleculardocking.online.