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VIDA and VIVANT v4.1.0 released

Wed, 08/03/2011 - 21:04 — admin
VIDA v4.1.0 has been released. This is the first major new release of VIDA with Joe Moon at the helm of the development process and we think you'll be pleased with the result.

With this release, significant improvements have been made to the molecular editing process which are detailed below. In addition, the authoring and management of VIDA extensions has been greatly simplified. Multiple working examples and detailed documentation have been created. Finally, numerous known issues from the previous version have been fixed and great attention has been paid to ensuring stability.

As part of this release, VIVANT has been updated and synchronized to the current VIDA version. In addition to numerous bug fixes and stability enhancements, compatibility and interaction with VIDA has been improved. This version of VIVANT also adds support for Microsoft Office 2010.

Both VIDA and VIVANT are available for download now. Existing licenses will continue to work. If a new license is needed, please contact your account manager or business@eyesopen.com to request a new one.

RESOURCES

NEW FEATURES

  • Simultaneous 2D and 3D editing of small molecules.
  • Ability to rotate and translate molecules independently in the builder.
  • Adjustment of torsion angles within rings to change ring puckers and interconvert axial and equatorial substitutions.
  • Improved set of fragments templates in the sketcher.
  • Option to use the MMFF94s force field when building molecules.
  • Ability to add annotations to existing objects and have those annotations appear in the List Window.
  • Simplified authoring of extensions and inclusion of a number of new example extension scripts.

MAJOR BUG FIXES

  • Fixed a crash when saving state files after loading a large number of proteins.
  • Fixed a crash when editing cells in a spreadsheet.
  • Centering on selected atoms would sometimes require a change in visibility before taking effect. This has been fixed.
  • Fixed a bug which caused rows to sometimes disappear when cells in a spreadsheet were edited.
  • Spreadsheet depictions are now being updated as molecules are edited.
  • An issue which caused the view to occasionally jump unexpectedly during molecule rotations was fixed.
  • Fixed a problem which sometimes caused crashes while creating measurements in the “All” scope.
  • Changing colors/styles of grids now operates on the proper scope, rather than on all visible grids.
  • Addressed issues with the builder and sketcher which sometimes caused fragments to be joined incorrectly.
  • Fixed a bug which sometimes caused right-click menus to become inoperative.

MINOR BUG FIXES

  • Hotkeys for Marked/Locked/Visible now work on selected rows in the spreadsheet, not just the active molecule.
  • Fixed a bug where changes to the spreadsheet cell formats weren’t being propagated immediately to the spreadsheet.
  • Fixed a bug to have VIDA remember the hidden/visible state of depictions in a spreadsheet from one session to another.
  • Fixed an issue with the spreadsheet so that users can’t edit non-editable cells, such as computed values (e.g., molecular weight, number of rotors) and user-defined python expressions.
  • Fixed a sizing problem with the 2D Sketcher window, which had caused some tools in its toolbar to be hidden.
  • When a spreadsheet is created from a list, it is now made the current spreadsheet.
  • Fixed an issue which would cause blank entries to sometimes appear in the List Window.
  • Fixed a rendering problem which caused circles to be displayed incorrectly.
  • Corrected an issue in which text would be incorrectly wrapped within labels.
  • Display of symmetry-related molecules now updates automatically as the view is translated.
  • Surface created in the FRED View are now added to the List Window and can be deleted individually.
  • Grid contours are now contoured by default at the original resolution of the grid file.
  • Contours of a grid can now be temporarily shown, similarly to conformers, by clicking on their names in the List Window.
  • All child objects of grids now show in the List Window. Previously only the contours would show.
  • Corrected an issue which sometimes caused incorrect hydrogen geometries during building.
  • Addressed several issues affecting performance and behavior of spreadsheets.
  • Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause incorrect stereochemistries to appear in 2D depictions.
  • Fixed a bug which caused stereochemistry to be omitted from molecules when copying to the clipboard.
  • Corrected strange lasso behavior in the sketcher.

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:

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