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Schrodinger Small Molecule Drug Discovery Suite Updated

 

The Schrodinger Small Molecule Drug Discovery Suite was updated over the weekend, this is a major update that brings in a host of new features and improvements.

Maestro Graphical Interface

Improved flexible ligand superposition Additional graphics settings
Real-time antialiasing Real-time ambient occlusion, outlines, and cartoon shading effects Multivariate ranking in the Project Table
Simultaneously maximize or minimize up to four property values, and rank entries based on the optimization Date Created and Date Modified fields automatically generated in the Project Table Workspace responsiveness of atom labels is up to 2.5x faster Click and drag to rearrange atom, measurement, and adjustment labels in the Workspace Support for bond labels Installed scripts and Tools menu items now searchable in the Task Tree Significant improvements to the Property Calculation interface in the project facility
Simultaneously calculate multiple properties Additional 2D properties now available: AlogP, #Hbond acceptors, #HBond donors, #rotatable bonds, polar surface area, molar refractivity, and polarizability

Ligand Docking

Ligand efficiencies are now calculated from the DockingScore instead of the GlideScore Generate per-residue interaction energies in Virtual Screening Workflow (VSW) for visualization New server mode in Glide Ligand Designer enables near real-time interactive docking (Glide Ligand Designer Script)

Pharmacophore Modeling

Performance improvements to Phase database operations, including faster deletion and insertion of ligands Automatic restart of Phase database subjobs

Field-Based QSAR

Use QM-calculated fields in 3D QSAR (command line only; phasefqsar script)
phase
fqsar script generates Jaguar input files for computing QM electrostatic fields for use in 3D QSAR

Molecular Dynamics

Monitor secondary structure elements over the course of the trajectory (Simulation Interactions Diagram; SID)

Quantum Mechanics

New interface to compute thermodynamic properties for reactions New faster TDDFT algorithm and graphical interface Compute Raman intensities Several improvements to the results script Jaguar pKa displays the computed pKa as an atom label by default Heat of formation graphical interface now supports bromine and iodine Improved numerical stability of the 1st and 2nd derivatives of the D3 correction Increased utility of canonical.py script
Script acts on a group of isomers and skips structures with unique stoichiometries

Protein X-Ray Refinement

Optionally set hydrogen B-values

Workflows & Pipelining

Includes the latest version of KNIME (v2.9)
Many new features including a Send Email node and ability to save workflows under different names; see http://tech.knime.org/whats-new-in-knime-29 for a complete list of new features Use any Glide simulation option in the Glide Ligand Docking node Employ a specific template in the Prime Build Homology Modeling node Import ungrouped structures to PyMOL from Run PyMOL node

Job Control

Improved fault tolerance Improved handling of suspended jobs in queueing systems

There are also updates to the Biologics Suite and the Materials Science Suite.

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