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| Accelrys Ships Discovery Studio 1.6 Accelrys has announced the shipment of Discovery Studio 1.6, the most recent version of its suite of life science modeling and simulation tools for lead discovery and optimization. Discovery Studio 1.6 includes additional functionality in the areas of structure-based design, protein modeling, simulations, analysis, and visualization. This release also includes the integration of Discovery Studio 1.6 with our open pipelining platform, SciTegic Pipeline Pilot, for automation and extensibility. The combination of Discovery Studio 1.6 and Pipeline Pilot provides the ability to create and manage computational protocols that capture and automate data processing routines. Users can quickly access protocols for protein modeling, receptor-ligand interactions, and simulation through either the Discovery Studio or Pipeline Pilot interface. Pipeline Pilot's open architecture enables the creation and automation of customized protocols that can include diverse components, while Discovery Studio lets users access and execute those protocols from a powerful graphical environment and subsequently visualize, analyze, and export results. A host of visualization enhancements in this release help users optimize their working environment and gain further insight about their structures. Other developments include a CHARMm-based docking refinement algorithm, ability to save and re-use forcefield files, new functionality for automated homology model generation and a rich graphical interface to GOLD-a genetic algorithm-based docking program from Accelrys partner, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC). write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |