BioLuminate

Comprehensive modeling platform for biologics discovery

BioLuminate
Unlock the possibilities of biologics design

Unlock the possibilities of biologics design

Maestro BioLuminate is Schrödinger’s comprehensive interface to streamline computationally-guided biologics drug discovery. By leveraging industry-leading molecular simulations and logically organizing tasks and workflows, BioLuminate provides predictive methods to optimize properties of biomolecules from sequence to structure.

bg-circle

Design better quality biomolecules with a comprehensive, user-friendly platform

Build & Model

  • Easily build accurate structural models which serve as key starting points for rational design of biologics
  • Model antibody structures using a fully guided, specialized workflow incorporating de novo CDR loop sampling
  • Leverage advanced protein sequence analysis tools, including annotation capabilities

Predict & Analyze

  • Access cutting-edge, predictive computational modeling workflows for biologics discovery within a streamlined portal
  • Predict and analyze protein-protein or protein-nucleic acid interactions at the atomic level using computational workflows
  • Calculate descriptors for characterizing and triaging antibodies and proteins, including protein surface properties and aggregation propensity

Design & Engineer

  • Enumerate potential amino acid substitutions and design focused libraries
  • Perform in silico mutagenesis to engineer novel variants with superior binding affinity, selectivity, and thermostability
  • Design flexible linkers and rigid linkers to generate multi-functional fusion proteins

Broad application across protein-based therapeutics discovery

Access refined workflows across multiple biological modalities

Antibody Design

Rationally design potent, safe, and developable monoclonal antibodies

Learn More
Peptide Discovery

Design peptidic drugs using in silico structure-based methods

Learn More
Enzyme Engineering

Efficiently optimize enzymes using structure-based design methods

Learn More

Documentation & Tutorials

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

Life Science Tutorial

Disulfide Bond Engineering

Run cysteine scanning to identify residues that could be mutated to cysteine to improve thermal stability and facilitate crystallization

Life Science Video

Setting up a BioLuminate Project

The first video in the Getting Going with Maestro BioLuminate Video Series: changing your working directory, saving projects, and more.

Life Science Video

Importing and Rendering Structures in BioLuminate

The second video in the Getting Going with Maestro BioLuminate Video Series: importing structures from the Protein Data Bank (PDB), selection and inclusion and workspace styling options.

Life Science Video

Interacting with Objects and Applications in BioLuminate

The third video in the Getting Going with Maestro BioLuminate Video Series: ways to use right-clicks in BioLuminate, managing surfaces.

Life Science Video

Interacting with and Favoriting Applications in BioLuminate

The fourth video in the Getting Going with Maestro BioLuminate Video Series: favorites toolbar, navigating the Tasks menu.

Life Science Video

Introduction to Workspace Toggles and the Structure Hierarchy in BioLuminate

The fifth video in the Getting Going with Maestro BioLuminate Video Series: workspace toggles, the Structure Hierarchy, Adding Antibody Annotations to the Structure Hierarchy, and performing measurements.

Life Science Video

A Sneak Peek into Renumbering Residues and the Project Table in BioLuminate

The sixth video in the Getting Going with Maestro BioLuminate Video Series: renaming chains and residues, the Project Table.

Life Science Tutorial

Heteromultimer Homology Modeling with the Multiple Sequence Viewer/Editor

Build a heteromultimer homology model of human hemoglobin from a bar-head goose hemoglobin structure.

Life Science Tutorial

Peptide Modeling with BioLuminate

Dock peptides to a protein receptor, identify possible binding hotspots, perform lead optimization, and predict binding affinity with QSAR.

Life Science Tutorial

Antibody Visualization and Modeling in BioLuminate

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

Featured CourseAntibody Modeling Online Course

Learn how to use BioLuminate for antibody engineering with our hands-on, online certification course

Level-up your computational modeling skills and enroll in our online course, Introduction to Computational Antibody Engineering.

view course

Webinars

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

Design and optimization of biologics driven by physics-based computational modeling

Antibody modeling with the Schrödinger platform

Enzymes by design: Structure-based methods for modeling enzymes

Publications

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

Life Science

Novel druggable space in human KRAS G13D discovered using structural bioinformatics and a P-loop targeting monoclonal antibody

Life Science

Robust prediction of relative binding energies for protein–protein complex mutations using free energy perturbation calculations

Life Science

Study of key residues in MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 main proteases for resistance against clinically applied inhibitors nirmatrelvir and ensitrelvir

Life Science

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

Life Science

Predictive modeling of concentration-dependent viscosity behavior of monoclonal antibody solutions using artificial neural networks

Life Science

Rational design of a highly immunogenic prefusion-stabilized F glycoprotein antigen for a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine

Life Science

A novel method for in silico assessment of Methionine oxidation risk in monoclonal antibodies: Improvement over the 2-shell model

Life Science

A Descriptor Set for Quantitative Structure-Property Relationship Prediction in Biologics

Life Science

Accurate Prediction of Protein Thermodynamic Stability Changes upon Residue Mutation using Free Energy Perturbation

Life Science

Disulfide Bond Engineering of an Endoglucanase from Penicillium verruculosum to Improve Its Thermostability

Training & Resources

Online certification courses

Level up your skill set with hands-on, online molecular modeling courses. These self-paced courses cover a range of scientific topics and include access to Schrödinger software and support.

Tutorials

Learn how to deploy the technology and best practices of Schrödinger software for your project success. Find training resources, tutorials, quick start guides, videos, and more.