In silico innovation for optimal drug candidates

18 Jun 2006
Kerry Parker
CEO

Product news

Chimatica is a unique drug design and discovery contract research organisation. Chimatica provides bespoke in silico drug design and discovery products and services centred on high throughput computational techniques.

Using virtual screening and informatics methods, the Chimatica approach significantly reduces costs and timescales by providing drug candidates with the highest possible chance of success. Industry-leading methods for receptor docking and simulation are used to select structure-based drug design targets for laboratory testing, and large-scale pharmacophore searching and QSAR analysis are used to identify ligand-based targets.

Chimatica provides access to commercially available, proprietary and virtual chemical databases on the multi million-compound scale with predefined drug characteristics. Virtual design is used to access new compounds and create bespoke virtual libraries that allow access to new and better high calibre drug candidates for a wider range of disease.

Through the combination of industry-recognised expertise, state of the art software and proprietary large-scale computing infrastructure, the company’s advanced in silico capabilities in molecular design and simulation provide the most effective path to drug innovation. From fully outsourced projects or working co-operatively with in-house teams, Chimatica helps bridge the gap between disease targets and optimal quality drug candidates with significantly lower costs and increased potential revenues.

Links

Tags

Chem / BioinformaticsCheminformatics and bioinformatics are computational techniques used in chemistry and biology, respectively, for data acquisition, processing and storage. Cheminformatics focuses on compound information, whereas bioinformatics is mainly applied to analysis and modeling of genomics, genetic and sequencing information. Hardware and software is available for data acquisition, analysis, management and storage.Compound LibrariesCompound libraries, or chemical libraries, are used in drug discovery for the identification of potential therapeutics compounds. Used in conjunction with high-throughput screening, the libraries of stored compounds are often generated for specific purposes as a drug target or disease model. Cheminformatics are commonly used when designing a compound library and software can be used to analyze the screening process.  Medicinal ChemistryMedicinal chemistry is a broad discipline encompassing the design, identification, synthesis and development of chemicals in drug discovery. It includes a number of techniques covering structural biology, synthetic chemistry and molecular biology. Technologies used in medicinal chemistry include ADME, lab-on-a-chip, high content screening and assay assembly.Process ChemistryProcess chemistry is an important stage of drug development for scaling-up drug production or chemical synthesis reactions. It is useful for optimizing economical and efficient drug production. Process chemistry uses reactors and pump systems as well as reagents, standards and buffers.
In silico innovation for optimal drug candidates