VeraChem Reviews in 2024

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Labs seeking a drug discovery solution for protein-ligand and host-guest binding affinity prediction

About VeraChem

VeraChem LLC was founded in 2000 to advance the state of the art in computer-aided drug discovery and molecular design by developing computational chemistry methods that are based on cutting-edge basic science but are also applicable in applied science research settings. Efficient high-performance software implementations of these methods coupled with comprehensive user support are a central company strategy for product development. Current VeraChem software capabilities include protein-ligand and host-guest binding affinity prediction, fast calculation of accurate partial atomic charges for drug-like compounds, computation of energies and forces with all the commonly used empirical force fields, automatic generation of alternate resonance forms of drug-like compounds, conformational search with the powerful Tork algorithm, and automatic detection of topological and 3D molecular symmetries. VeraChem’s software packages are constructed from a modular code base.

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