AFITT 2.0 Released with Process Guided Wizard
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AFITT 2.0 DEBUTS WITH NEW PROCESS GUIDED WIZARD, AMONG OTHER SIGNIFICANT FEATURES
Santa Fe, NM, May 11, 2010 — OpenEye Scientific Software, Inc., (www.eyesopen.com) the developer of innovative molecular modeling and cheminformatics solutions for drug discovery, announced the release of AFITT 2.0, the company's highly acclaimed software for crystallographers.
AFITT is the only software on the market to offer a fully automatic ligand fitting process that optimizes a real-space fit to density while keeping conformational strain to a minimum. It capitalizes on a combination of core technologies that OpenEye has developed, specifically conformer generation, shape potential, high quality small molecule structure minimization, and visualization.
"We are very excited about this highly anticipated release as it significantly enhances the usability of AFITT while adding important new functionality" remarked Dr. Joseph Corkery, Vice President of Business Development at OpenEye Scientific Software, Inc.
AFITT 2.0 now includes a completely automated, simple to use wizard that walks you through the entire workflow process. The newly streamlined, task based interface makes working with AFITT more intuitive and user-friendly. Additional features to AFITT 2.0 include:
- 2D and 3D molecular editor
- Previously defined residue detection
- Automatic covalent detection
- Direct plug-ins for transfer of data to Coot or VIDA
- Improved support for REFMAC and CNS/CNX
A complete list of all the new AFITT features can be found at http://www.eyesopen.com/afitt
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About OpenEye Scientific Software
OpenEye Scientific Software Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with offices in Boston, Massachusetts, Strasbourg, France and Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1997 to develop large-scale molecular modeling applications and toolkits. Primarily aimed towards drug discovery and design, areas of application include:
- chemical informatics
- structure generation
- shape comparison
- docking
- fragment replacement
- electrostatics
- crystallography
- visualization
The software is designed for scientific rigor, as well as speed, scalability and platform independence. OpenEye makes most of its technology available as toolkits - programming libraries suitable for custom development. OpenEye software typically is distributable across multiple processors, supports 64-bit processing, and runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. For further information on the company and its products, see www.eyesopen.com
For additional information
Joseph Corkery, M.D.
Vice President, Business Development
+1-505-473-7385 x76
Email: business@eyesopen.com
