Ligand-Based Drug Design integrates ICM Chemist Pro and ICM RIDE for pharmacophore modeling, similarity search, and lead optimization. Combined with ChemAxon’s calculators and predictors, it enables early evaluation of properties and drug-likeness to guide smarter decisions.
Structure-Based Drug Design
Structure-Based Drug Design solutions from MolSoft LLC leverage the powerful ICM platform for high-accuracy docking, molecular dynamics, protein modeling, and binding site analysis. These tools enable researchers to rationally design and optimize drug candidates using detailed 3D structural insights.
ICM PRO
ICM Pro
ICM-Pro is MolSoft’s primary desktop modeling software offering most of the core functionalities like:
- ICM Pocket Finder
- Docking
- Ligand- Protein
- Induced Fit
- Protein-Protein
Peptide Docking- RNA Docking
- ICM 3D Interactive Editor
- 2D ligand-receptor interaction diagrams
- PROTAC Modeling
- Molecular Dynamics
- Predict Effect of Mutation
- Crystallographic Analysis Tool
- Protein Structure Prediction and Analysis
- Sequence Analysis & Alignments and many other functionalities
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ICM Pro is a comprehensive tool for structure-based drug design and offers high-quality protein structure analysis, modeling, docking, PROTAC Modeling, RNA Docking, MD, Mutation studies and much more.
ICM VLS
ICM Virtual Ligand Screening
ICM-VLS ( Virtual Ligand Screening) is MolSoft’s efficient virtual screening methodology in which ligands are fully and continuously flexible, some of the core functionalities include:
- Ligand Docking – Batch
- Covalent Docking
- Structure-based VLS
- Virtual Ligand Screening Physics/AI based scores

- Ligand-based VLS (APF)
- Fragment-based VLS
- Dock on the fly Markush generated libraries
- ICM 3D Interactive Editor
- Atomic Property Fields (APF)
- RIDE (CPU version)
- Pharmacophore Searching
- Includes all Functionalities of ICM Chemist – Pro
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ICM VLS is a high-accuracy virtual ligand screening platform enabling hit identification. It combines advanced docking, flexible receptor modeling, and robust scoring functions to prioritize promising candidates efficiently.
ICM – Homology
ICM Homology
ICM-Homology offers a methodology for conformational modeling of protein side chains and loops, implemented in ICM, relies on internal coordinate definition of the molecular object combined with computationally efficient ICM Biased Probability Monte Carlo
- Sensitive sequence search for template identification.
- Fast model building – the algorithm builds the model with all loops in seconds.

- Loop prediction using a loop PDB database.
- Loop prediction through local energy optimization.
- Multi-template modeling.
- Loop grafting.
- Protein sculpting.
- Peptide modeling.
- Search the PDB for similar loop conformation.
- Calculate relative residue frequency in similar loops from the PDB.
- Prediction of Disulfide bonds.
- Local reliability prediction and model validation features.
- Model refinement using ICM global optimization.
- Membrane protein modeling.
- High-throughput homology modeling.
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The ICM-Homology modeling algorithm has proved to be one of the more robust modeling tools for conformational modeling of protein side chains and loops as well as single and multi-template modeling.
Ligand-Based Drug Design
ICM Chemist Pro
ICM Chemist-Pro
ICM-Pro is MolSoft’s primary desktop modeling software offering most of the core functionalities like:
- 2D/3D Molecular Editor
- Chemical Spreadsheet Environment
- Substructure & Similarity Search

- 2D → 3D Conversion
- 3D Ligand Superposition
- Pharmacophore Modeling (APF)
- QSAR Modeling & Validation
- Combinatorial Library Enumeration
- Stereoisomer & Tautomer Generation
- ADMET Property Calculations & Plotting
- Clustering & Chemical Space Analysis
- Local Compound Database Support
- Interactive 3D Ligand Editing
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ICM Chemist Pro is a standalone chemoinformatics tool offering a wide set of 3D chemical tools, chemical superposition, 3D interactive ligand-receptor editing, and QSAR.
Calculator & Predictors
Calculators and Predictors
Chemaxon’s Calculators and Predictors allow users to execute high quality physico-chemical calculations and predictions.
- Physicochemical Property Calculations
- LogP / LogD Prediction

- pKa & Protonation State Estimation
- Solubility Prediction
- ADMET Risk Prediction (e.g., hERG)
- Elemental Analysis & Mass Calculation
- Polar Surface Area (PSA)
- Structural Descriptors
- Tautomer & Microspecies Distribution
- Applicability Domain & Confidence Metrics
- API & Command-line Integration
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Chemaxon’s Calculators and Predictors estimate physicochemical, ADMET, and drug-likeness properties like lipophilicity, pKa, permeability, and other critical parameters with high accuracy.
ICM – RIDE -GPU
RIDE (GPU)
RIDE is a fast 3D molecular similarity search method based on Atomic Property Fields. RIDE searches databases of compound conformers for molecules that are isosteric to the query
- Can screen 1.5Million conformers/sec/GPU
- GPU-Accelerated 3D Similarity Search
- Bioisosteric Replacement Engine
- Rapid Lead Optimization Assistance
- Scaffold Hopping at Scale
- Flexible Conformer Matching
- High-Throughput Virtual Replacement
- Structure-Aware Chemical Space Exploration
- Integrates with ICM Design Workflows
- Supports Large Compound Libraries
- Fast Performance via Parallel GPU Compute
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RIDE is a fast 3D molecular similarity search method based on Atomic Property Fields. RIDE searches databases of compound conformers for molecules that are isosteric to the query
AI/ML Based tools – Ultra Large Library Screening
Ultra-Large Library Screening solutions from MolSoft enable rapid exploration of billions of virtual compounds using advanced docking, AI-driven scoring, and high-performance computing. Powered by ICM technology, they help researchers efficiently identify high-quality hit candidates with improved accuracy and speed.
RIDGE
RIDGE (Rapid Docking GPU Engine)
Below are concise feature bullets for RIDGE (Rapid Docking GPU Engine):
- GPU-accelerated structure-based docking
- Ultra-fast virtual ligand screening (~100 compounds/sec on RTX GPUs)
- ~1000× speed of a single CPU core
- Screens 10 Million compounds on a desktop GPU in a day

- Supports multiple GPUs for parallel jobs
- Compatible with existing ICM docking projects
- Uses highly-compressed conformer libraries
- Neural-network scoring (RTCNN)
- Option to apply physics-based docking scores
- Minimal setup from standard ICM dock projects
- Efficient for ultra-large library screening
- Works on Linux and Windows platforms
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RIDGE (Rapid Docking GPU Engine) enables you to perform 3D structure-based screening of ultra-large libraries. It can screen around 100 compounds/ sec on a single consumer-grade GPU.
GigaScreen
GigaScreen
The GigaScreen method combines machine learning and deep learning tools to tackle the computational intensity of screening very large chemical databases. Key features include:
- Ultra-large library screening framework
- Deep learning-guided hit prioritization
- Combines ML models with GPU docking

- Uses RIDGE GPU acceleration for speed
- Screens billions of virtual compounds
- Iterative model training and scoring
- Reduces compute costs and data volume
- Adjustable score thresholds for filtering
- Automated batch processing workflows
- Scales on single workstation or GPU cluster
- Hybrid physics + AI scoring strategies
- Active learning loop for model refinement
- Efficient candidate selection from giga-sized libraries
- Supports custom filtering rules and constraints
- Integrates with existing ICM workflows
- Includes trillions of pre-prepared libraries from multiple vendors
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The GigaScreen method combines machine learning and deep learning tools to tackle the computational intensity of screening very large chemical databases. Capable of screening 1 billion molecules/day.
CombiRIDGE
CombiRIDGE
CombiRIDGE is a new innovative GPU-accelerated solution for high-throughput ligand docking and screening which leverages MolSoft’s generative neural network conformer enumeration method GINGER, ultra-fast GPU docking technology RIDGE and advanced graph neural network scoring ( RTCNN ). The approach allows you to optimize specific R-groups and screen vast ultra-large or combinatorial libraries efficiently.
- Reaction-based combinatorial library generation

- Synthesizable compound design
- Applies known chemical transformation rules
- Generates diverse, focused libraries
- Preserves synthetic feasibility
- Customizable reaction templates
- Flexible scaffold and building block selection
- Supports enumerations with stereochemistry
- Integrates with ICM design workflows
- Enables rapid ideation of analog series
- Automated combinatorial enumeration
- Structural filtering and property constraints
- Facilitates hit expansion strategies
- High-throughput library creation
- Supports custom compound rules
- Enhances medicinal chemistry productivity
- Efficiently explores chemical neighborhoods
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CombiRIDGE is a new innovative GPU-accelerated solution for high-throughput ligand docking and screening which leverages MolSoft’s generative neural network conformer enumeration method GINGER.
V-SYNTHES
V-SYNTHES
V-SYNTHES is a hierarchical synthon-based virtual screening platform that enables efficient exploration of ultra-large, synthetically accessible chemical libraries using flexible ICM docking.
- Hierarchical synthon-based virtual screening strategy
- Efficient navigation of ultra-large make-on-demand libraries
- Screens tens of billions of compounds
- Uses ICM docking for flexible, accurate scoring

- Fragment-based initial screening and enumeration
- Minimal Enumeration Library (MEL) generation
- Iterative docking and hit refinement
- 4D flexible-receptor representation support
- Accelerated docking via hierarchical protocol
- Applicable to gigascale chemical spaces
- Prioritizes synthetically accessible candidates
- Scales on desktop or cluster environments
- Integrates with ICM-Pro and VLS workflows
- Supports complex target classes like GPCRs and kinases
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V-SYNTHES is a hierarchical, synthon-based virtual screening strategy that efficiently navigates gigascale make-on-demand chemical libraries by iteratively assembling and docking scaffold–synthon combinations.
ICM – RIDE -GPU
RIDE (GPU)
RIDE is a fast 3D molecular similarity search method based on Atomic Property Fields. RIDE searches databases of compound conformers for molecules that are isosteric to the query
- Can screen 1.5Million conformers/sec/GPU
- GPU-Accelerated 3D Similarity Search
- Bioisosteric Replacement Engine
- Rapid Lead Optimization Assistance
- Scaffold Hopping at Scale
- Flexible Conformer Matching
- High-Throughput Virtual Replacement
- Structure-Aware Chemical Space Exploration
- Integrates with ICM Design Workflows
- Supports Large Compound Libraries
- Fast Performance via Parallel GPU Compute
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RIDE is a fast 3D molecular similarity search method based on Atomic Property Fields. RIDE searches databases of compound conformers for molecules that are isosteric to the query
GINGER
GINGER
- GPU-accelerated conformer generation
- Neural network-based internal coordinate model
- Rapid production of diverse, low-energy 3D conformers

- Highly scalable for very large libraries
- Generates high-quality conformers with energy refinement
- Efficiently handles millions of compounds per day
- Produces smaller, high-accuracy conformer sets
- Ideal for 3D workflows (screening, docking, similarity)
- Integrates with ICM-Pro, RIDE, and RIDGE
Memory-efficient and robust conformer processing
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GINGER (Graph Internal-coordinate Neural-network conformer Generator with Energy Refinement) is Molsoft’s new cutting-edge software designed for lightning-fast high quality conformer library generation on GPUs.
AI Driven Drug Design
AI-driven drug design integrates predictive modeling, virtual screening, and curated chemical intelligence to accelerate hit discovery and lead optimization. By combining data-driven insights with advanced computational methods, researchers can prioritize high-quality candidates faster and with greater confidence.
LigandAIDE
LigandAIDE
Ligand AIDE is a de novo ligand generation workflow based on Artificial Intelligent Design Evolution. It uses an iterative evolutionary strategy to grow and optimize ligands directly in the context of a protein binding site.
- AI-driven de novo ligand generation workflow
- Iterative evolutionary design directly in a protein binding site

- Begins from docked fragment population and grows ligands
- Uses groupGen neural network for R-group addition and replacement
- Atom-level substitution via neural atom predictor
- Re-docks new designs each generation for optimized fit
- Multi-objective selection using AI score, docking score, and drug-like filters
- Synthesizability criteria enforce practical chemical designs
- Typically uses multiple evolutionary cycles (e.g., 3-5)
- Efficient exploration of chemical space with binding quality focus
- Integrates with docking workflows for automated design refinement
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Ligand AIDE is a de novo ligand generation workflow based on Artificial Intelligent Design Evolution. It uses an iterative evolutionary strategy to grow and optimize ligands directly in the context of a protein binding site.
MolScreen
MolScreen
MolScreen is a set of high quality 2D fingerprint and 3D pharmacophore models for a broad range of pharmacology and toxicology targets.
- Panel of >2,500 high-quality 2D & 3D AI/ML models for pharmacology & toxicity targets
- Models cover ~1,200 distinct targets
- Includes 2D fingerprint ML classifiers & regressors

- 3D Atomic Property Field (APF) pharmacophore models
- ADMET prediction models (e.g., CYP, hERG, half-life)
- Supports lead identification & profiling workflows
- Useful for target identification & drug repurposing
- Fast scoring with validated performance metrics (e.g., high AUCs for key model types)
- Works with ICM-Pro + VLS screening automation
- Enables multi-target vs. multi-compound profiling
- Models can be run directly or via batch jobs in ICM GUI/CLI
- Includes classification & regression scoring outputs
- Adaptable for lead optimization and SAR analysis
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MolScreen is a set of high quality 2D fingerprint and 3D pharmacophore models for a broad range of pharmacology and toxicology targets. The models can be used for lead discovery or counter screening.
Reaxys
Reaxys
Trusted data, technology and expertise to support chemistry research
- Expert-curated chemistry database integrating reactions, substances, properties, and literature.

- Contains data from ≈125 million documents from 18,000 journals
- Includes ~49 million patent documents from 105 patent offices
- Contains ~353 million chemical substances and ~500 million associated properties.
- Includes ~51 million bioactivity data points linked to ~43,000 biological targets.
- Powerful structure, substructure, and multi-field search capabilities.
- Supports synthesis planning, AI-driven retrosynthesis, and experiment design insights.
- Weekly data updates and API access for integration into workflows.
- Covers historical and modern authoritative chemical information back to the 18th century.
- Weekly data updates to keep substance, reaction, and property records current.
- Powerful structure, substructure, and multi-field search capabilities.
- Supports synthesis planning, retrosynthesis insights, and experimental design.
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Reaxys is a comprehensive chemical database and chemistry search engine that combines a billion chemistry data points with AI search and retrosynthesis tools. Reaxys helps chemists accelerate synthesis planning, competitive analysis and the DMTA cycle.
AI-Enabled Life Science Database
AI-enabled life science databases integrate chemical, biological, pharmacological, and clinical intelligence into a unified, searchable knowledge ecosystem. By combining curated data with advanced analytics and AI-driven insights, researchers can make faster, evidence-based decisions across discovery and development.
Reaxys
Reaxys
Trusted data, technology and expertise to support chemistry research
- Expert-curated chemistry database integrating reactions, substances, properties, and literature.

- Contains data from ≈125 million documents from 18,000 journals
- Includes ~49 million patent documents from 105 patent offices
- Contains ~353 million chemical substances and ~500 million associated properties.
- Includes ~51 million bioactivity data points linked to ~43,000 biological targets.
- Powerful structure, substructure, and multi-field search capabilities.
- Supports synthesis planning, AI-driven retrosynthesis, and experiment design insights.
- Weekly data updates and API access for integration into workflows.
- Covers historical and modern authoritative chemical information back to the 18th century.
- Weekly data updates to keep substance, reaction, and property records current.
- Powerful structure, substructure, and multi-field search capabilities.
- Supports synthesis planning, retrosynthesis insights, and experimental design.
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Reaxys is a comprehensive chemical database and chemistry search engine that combines a billion chemistry data points with AI search and retrosynthesis tools. Reaxys helps chemists accelerate synthesis planning, competitive analysis and the DMTA cycle.
Embiology
Embiology
EmBiology uncovers millions of biological relationships to help you better understand disease biology. Get targeted data using relation and concept filters.
- AI-curated biological knowledge graph linking genes, proteins, diseases, pathways, cells, tissues, and processes.
- Contains structured cause-and-effect relationships extracted from millions of scientific articles.
- Integrates semantic biological associations rather than simple co-mentions.
- Supports multi-entity query exploration (e.g., gene sets, disease lists).
- Visual network and pathway views for interactive relationship mapping.
- Advanced filtering by relationship type, organism, evidence strength, and publication date.
- Enables identification of upstream regulators and downstream effects for mechanistic insight.
- Facilitates target identification & prioritization with contextual evidence scoring.
- Supports biomarker discovery through biologically relevant associations.
- Provides evidence scoring and provenance tracking to link relationships back to source literature.
- Regular updates to ensure current biological knowledge and ongoing curation.
- API and export support for integration into bioinformatics and data science workflows.
- Designed to accelerate translational research and systems biology interpretation.
- Enables exploration of disease mechanisms, signaling pathways, and regulatory networks.
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EmBiology provides a clear view of biological relationships to optimize drug research. EmBiology uncovers millions of biological relationships to help you better understand disease biology. Get targeted data using relation and concept filters.
Embase
Embase
ICM-Pro is MolSoft’s primary desktop modeling software offering most of the core functionalities like:
- ~40+ million biomedical records from 1947–present
- Daily updates with newly published literature

- 8,500 peer-reviewed journals indexed globally
- Extensive conference abstract coverage
- ~2,900+ journals unique to Embase (not in MEDLINE)
- EMtree controlled vocabulary with 90,000+ terms
- Deep drug, disease, and medical device indexing
- Advanced Boolean, proximity, and field-specific search
- PICO search builder and query translation tools
- Strong pharmacovigilance & adverse event coverage
- Medical device surveillance and regulatory insights
- Alerts, saved searches, and export tools
- API and data delivery options for integration
- Supports systematic reviews, HEOR, regulatory & clinical research
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Embase is the biomedical database for systematic reviews, drug safety monitoring and evidence-based research and practice. Regulators and researchers worldwide rely on Embase for biomedical literature that is comprehensive and current.
PharmPendium
PharmaPendium
PharmaPendium supports drug safety and efficacy decisions for better drug outcomes.
- Full-text FDA & EMA regulatory documents
- Extracted safety, PK, metabolism & efficacy data

- Millions of curated regulatory pages
- Integrated FAERS real-world adverse event data
- MedDRA-coded safety terminology
- Drug benchmarking vs approved/withdrawn compounds
- Drug–Drug Interaction Risk Calculator
- Safety Margin & toxicity assessment tools
- Natural language AI search (PharmaPendium AI)
- Regulatory data visualizations & analytics
- Supports safety, translational & regulatory research
- API access & structured data export
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PharmaPendium supports drug safety and efficacy decisions for better drug outcomes. PharmaPendium combines unparalleled regulatory and drug data with full-text search and predictive tools. Reduce animal testing and launch drugs faster.
MolCart Compounds
MolCart Compound
MolCart Compound Database is an up-to-date collection of vendor compound databases. This database is divided into two collections:
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- Screening Compounds for cherry picking.
- Building blocks for combinatorial chemistry
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MolCart Compound Database is an up-to-date collection of vendor compound databases. This database is divided into two collections: Screening Compounds and Building blocks.
Chemical Drawing
Chemical Editors are the most basic but most essential tool in biochemical research. To facilitate the easy and efficient drawing of chemical structures and biomolecules on desktop or on the web, we offer the following editors.
Marvin
Marvin
The new Marvin is a universal chemical editor that serves the needs of any chemist involved in research and drug discovery.
- Advanced chemical structure drawing and editing

- Intuitive 2D/3D molecule sketcher
- Multi-platform support: web, desktop, mobile
- Accurate structure clean-up and standardization
- Reaction drawing and editing tools
- Stereochemistry handling and annotation
- Structure templates and fragment libraries
- Smart chemical copy/paste & drag-and-drop support
- Integration with IUPAC naming and property calculators
- Export to common chemical formats (Mol, SMILES, InChI, etc.)
- Chemical layout for publications and reports
- Embeddable in other applications via API/SDK
- Supports rapid drawing workflows for chemists and researchers
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The new Marvin is a web-based, feature-rich universal chemical editor that serves the needs of any chemist involved in chemical, pharmaceutical research, and drug discovery.
Marvin Sketch
MarvinSketch and Marvin JS
MarvinSketch is a fully featured chemical drawing tool built to serve any chemist’s needs running on their local computers. Marvin JS is a simplified chemical editor built to add chemical features to web applications. Both first generation software are still supported.
The next generation Marvin is a web-based application that gives you the full feature set necessary in chemical research and the flexibility to integrate with your tools. This makes Marvin the only chemical drawing tool you will ever need.
Marvin Sketch is the legacy fully loaded chemically intelligent chemical editor supporting drawing, editing, and rendering of all kinds of simple and complex chemical structures with publication-quality graphics
Store, Search, Analyse Chemical Data
The amount of chemical and biological data that gets generated in a research laboratory becomes difficult to manage over time. We offer solutions that ensure that the data is organized and stored in an efficient manner, so that retrieval of information is also easy.
Instant JChem
Instant JChem is a robust desktop tool to create, manage, analyze, and search chemical structures and related non-chemical data in simple or relational databases in a user-friendly way.
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JChem for Office
JChem for Office is the plugin for Microsoft Office applications that imparts chemical knowledge to office documents, allowing users to draw, edit, and analyze chemical structures in a known interface.
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JChem Engine
The JChem Engines offer chemical data management, storage, and intricate chemical search technologies on various database engines for diverse chemical file types including reactions and markush structures.
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Plexus Connect
Plexus Connect provides a web-based solution for management, analysis, searching, and display of scientific data empowered by various ChemAxon technologies at the backend.
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Standardizer
Standardizer converts the different representations of a chemical structure into a standard representation so that inconsistencies in a database are avoided by following certain rules for representation.
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Structure Checker
Structure Checker ensures the correctness of the drawn structure by automatically checking for errors and issues in the structure and highlighting the identified errors while auto-correcting some.
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Compound Registration
Compound registration uses configurable business logic to normalize, validate and quality check compounds and decide the uniqueness of the new molecules before registering them.
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Molcart GigaSearch
The Giga-Search methods add fingerprint bit statistics to the MolCart search engine which allows an extremely fast and efficient way of filtering out molecules based on the input chemical pattern.
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Virtual Library Generation
Advances in technology and computer processing speed and storage has enabled exploration of virtual chemical space by generating virtual libraries. We offer scaffold-based enumeration or reaction-based enumeration.
Reactor
Reactor is a virtual library enumeration engine that uses generic reaction equations with pre-defined reaction rules to generate chemically feasible products or reactions.
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Markush Enumeration
Markush enumeration is used to analyze patents and generate virtual libraries of compounds. The plugin can enumerate the entire library or part of it along with homology groups.
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Chemical Compliance
It is essential to comply with the laws and regulations in terms of chemical import, export, and storage. It is not always easy to understand if a chemical is a controlled substance because of the generic definitions provided in the regulations. We offer an easy way to take care of this.
Compliance Checker
Compliance Checker is a package of software systems and content, that enables users to check if their compounds are controlled in their country of interest by any specific regulation.
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LIMS and ELN
Manage your laboratory data with ease and efficiency with the LIMS and ELN tools from our partners. We offer customizations on top of the available solutions to make it the best fit for your requirement.
GeneELN
A multifunctional tool to capture reactions and experiment details, while enabling seamless search using structure or text. GeneELN also supports Audit trails.
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GeneCIS
Chemical Inventory System enables increased inventory accuracy and operational efficiency by reducing carrying costs and optimizing inventory write-offs. GeneCIS also provides chart and reports.
GeneATS
The system enables the processing of samples by the team and allows the Analytical Team to efficiently perform tests and upload the results through online Ticket generation and report submission.