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)
phasefqsar 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.