Probably, there is some server error in DUDE-E decoy generation. As it keeps on sending empty files whenerver i had submitted by ligands for decoys generation. Can anybody tell me some alternate software for decoy generation????
Actually, Dude is NOT the best decoy collection. It was created under the assumption that the decoys are not active which is unknown since they were not tested against the respective targets. And they are often chemically quite different from the actives, i.e., too easy to filter out by e.g. docking. There is another set, the MUF by Knut Baumann, which is selected via descriptor similarity, but no software will find good enrichments with those. There is a paper about the software decois. Have a look at their concept.
Actually, the best decoys are compounds confirmed as inactive. Therefore, look at the analogous assay at pubchem or chembl etc and take the inactives from there.