NOV 12, 2025

Chemical Spaces at Schrödinger: Ligand-based screening at any size

Readily available chemicals keep increasing rapidly in number while the need for novel chemical matter for drug targets remains at an all time high. Recently, tera-scale virtual libraries have become available enabling trillions of compounds for purchase and deployment in hit discovery projects. To support the ever-growing access to vast chemical space Schrödinger has developed a plethora of ligand-based tools facilitating efficient and locally-deployable screening campaigns for pharmacophores, ligand shape, and fingerprint methodologies at increasing library sizes, from enumerated to virtual spaces. In this presentation we will review these technologies as well as chemical space where they are most applicable.

Our Speaker

Tim Knehans

Principal Scientist II, Applications Science, Schrödinger

Tim Knehans joined Schrödinger in 2019 where he works as an Applications Scientist in Europe as well as a Product Manager for Schrödinger’s Cheminformatics Software, overseeing the utilization of ultra-large chemical spaces. Tim obtained his Dr. sc. nat. from the University of Zurich under Amedeo Caflisch before joining professors Didier Rognan & Esther Kellenberger at the University of Strasbourg for a PostDoc. He then joined the Computational Chemistry Department of Merck KGaA working in Drug Discovery & ultra-large libraries as well as a Cheminformatics Team Lead for the SYNTHIA retrosynthesis project.