Antibody Design

Rationally design potent, safe, and developable monoclonal antibodies

Antibody Design

Capabilities for structure-based design of antibodies

In traditional IgG or alternative formats

Construct reliable 3D structural models of antibodies directly from sequence

  • Predict antibody structure using a fully guided homology modeling workflow that incorporates de novo CDR loop conformation prediction
  • Perform batch homology modeling to accelerate model construction for a parent sequence and its variants
  • Identify and prioritize promising leads by modeling and triaging antibody sequences with prediction tools for structure characterization

Streamline rational antibody humanization

  • Generate humanized antibodies through CDR grafting in conjunction with targeted residue mutations
  • Evaluate the percentage of humanness of resulting constructs

Understand and predict antibody-antigen interactions

  • Predict antibody-antigen complex structures through ensemble protein-protein docking
  • Enhance resolution of experimental epitope mapping data (e.g. mutagenesis or mass-spectroscopy) from peptide to residue level detail
  • Identify favorable antibody-antigen contacts through fast protein-protein docking
  • Interrogate and analyze predicted protein-protein interactions with an easily accessible graphical user interface

Derisk development by uncovering potential liabilities earlier

  • Identify and prioritize promising leads by modeling and triaging antibody sequences with prediction tools for structure characterization
  • Highlight potential surface sites for post-translational modification and chemical reactivity
  • Detect potential hotspots for aggregation using computational protein surface analysis

Engineer antibodies in silico

  • Accurately predict the impact of residue substitution on binding affinity, selectivity, and thermostability
  • Rapidly identify high quality protein variants using Residue Scan FEP+ with lambda dynamics
  • Refine antibody candidate selection using Protein Mutation FEP+ with an accuracy that reproduces experimentally determined relative free energies to within ~1 kcal/mol
  • Perform multi-parameter optimization with easily amenable computational workflows e.g. simultaneously optimize for stability, affinity, cross-reactivity, aggregation propensity, and post-translational modification risk
 

Design high-quality biologics with Schrödinger’s cutting-edge software

BioLuminate


Modeling environment for biologics discovery

LiveDesign


Collaborative digital biologics design and discovery lab

Featured CourseAntibody Modeling Online Course

Learn antibody modeling with our hands-on online course

Level-up your skills by enrolling in our online course, Introduction to Computational Antibody Engineering.

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Webinars

Discover how Schrödinger technology is being used to solve real-world research challenges.

Optimizing protein stability using new computational design approaches for biologics

Accelerating antibody drug discovery through computational modeling

Antibody humanization guided by computational modeling

Documentation & Tutorials

Get answers to common questions and learn best practices for using Schrödinger’s software.

Life Science
Antibody Visualization and Modeling in BioLuminate

Visualize, build, and evaluate antibody models, analyze an antibody for various characteristics, dock an antigen to an antibody.

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Liability Analysis for Biologics

Explore tools that can be used in liability detection and mitigation for biologics

Life Science
Sequence Annotation of Antibodies with the Multiple Sequence Viewer/Editor

Annotate an antibody sequence with residue-level properties with the Multiple Sequence Viewer/Editor (MSV).

Life Science
Introduction to BioLuminate and the Multiple Sequence Viewer/Editor

Prepare and visualize an enzyme, analyze the sequence for residue conservation, and build a homology model with the MSV.

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Batch Homology Modeling Using the Multiple Sequence Viewer/Editor

Build multiple homology models using a single template with the MSV.

Key Products

Learn more about the key computational technologies available to progress your research projects.

BioLuminate

Comprehensive modeling platform for biologics discovery

LiveDesign

Your complete digital molecular design lab

Prime

A powerful and innovative solution for accurate protein structure prediction

PIPER

A state-of-the-art protein-protein docking program

Desmond

High-performance molecular dynamics (MD) engine providing high scalability, throughput, and scientific accuracy

FEP+

High-performance free energy calculations for drug discovery

Publications

Browse the list of peer-reviewed publications using Schrödinger technology in related application areas.

Structure-guided engineering of immunotherapies targeting TRBC1 and TRBC2 in T cell malignancies

Ferrari, M. et al. Nat Commun. 2024

Biological activity validation of a computationally designed Rituximab/CD3 T cell engager targeting CD20+ cancers with multiple mechanisms of action

Cai, W. et al. Antibody Therapeutics, 2021, 4(4), 228-241

Relative Binding Affinity Prediction of Charge-Changing Sequence Mutations with FEP in Protein–Protein Interfaces

Clark, A. J. et al. Journal of Molecular Biology, 2019, 431(7), 1481-1493

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