De Novo Design Workflow
Fully-integrated, cloud-based design system for ultra-large scale chemical space exploration and refinement
Expand your compound design strategies with unbiased chemical space exploration for hit-to-lead and lead opt
Schrödinger’s De Novo Design Workflow is a fully-integrated, cloud-based design system for ultra-large scale chemical space exploration and refinement. Starting from a hit molecule or lead series, the technology identifies synthetically tractable molecules that meet key project criteria by combining multiple compound enumeration strategies with an advanced filtering cascade (AutoDesigner) and rigorous potency scoring with free energy calculations (Active Learning FEP+).
Key Capabilities
Dramatically improve synthetic tractability of the identified molecules
Through built-in reaction-based enumeration combined with advanced filtering to rule out undesired and unrealistic chemistry
Efficiently identify potent lead compounds in favorable physicochemical property space
By leveraging accurate potency predictions combined with active learning
Fast-track ligand optimization and program success
By efficiently evaluating up to billions of project-relevant virtual molecules
Accelerated, seamless exploration of large chemical space
The De Novo Design Workflow offers a cloud-deployable solution with the flexibility to customize settings and property space for the unique needs of your program.
1. Control the chemical space to be explored with project-specific input parameters
Define the starting molecule, the portion of the molecule to explore, the desired physicochemical property space, and additional project-specific filters within LiveDesign, a web-based enterprise molecular design and collaboration platform.
2. Expand into synthetically-tractible space of interest to medicinal chemists
Automatically carry out successive rounds of compound generation and filtering within desired chemical space using cloud-native, multi-stage enumeration strategies combined with an advanced filtering cascade based on physical properties, amenability to FEP+, IP, and docking.
3. Score idea molecules with a highly accurate in silico binding affinity assay
Leverage a well-validated, automated workflow which trains a machine learning model on project-specific FEP+ data to allow processing of up to millions of compounds with highly accurate FEP+ calculations efficiently.
4. Analyze and prioritize output molecules with a collaborative design platform
Review the top scoring compounds and use the FEP+-trained machine learning model in LiveDesign — allowing evaluation, interactive optimization, and prioritization by the project team.
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