Molecular modeling is more than just generating numbers. It is about understanding, rationalizing, predicting, and, most importantly, communicating results. Ultimately, modeling efforts are pointless if they don't influence the target audience. To maximize impact, the audience itself needs an easy to use tool to study the appropriate data without overwhelming detail. To this end, the OpenEye strategy is to offer a complementary pair of applications.

VIDA creates visual content and VIVANT "publishes" this content in a variety of media, including PowerPoint^®, Word^® and web pages. VIDA allows the modeler to make live, interactive 3D views, annotated with important details, and organized in preset, "bookmarked" scenes. VIVANT allows the audience to interact with this data in a familiar environment. Modeling results can be easily shared, whether to a project team via e-mail in a PowerPoint^® presentation or a Word^® document, or disseminated across an entire organization via intranet web pages. By lowering the barriers to communication and providing cutting edge graphics and science to all, VIDA and VIVANT bring the big picture home.

   

A screenshot of VIDA with its 3D window showing a docking view and its spreadsheet with docking data (left), and a VIVANT-enabled VIDA view of docking results incorporated in PowerPoint^®, with data and bookmarks (right)

The primary features of VIDA include:

• Large-scale visualization
• Real-time interaction between: list manager, spreadsheet, 1D (SMILES), 2D and 3D displays
• Preset, customizable views for docking (FRED) and ligand-based similarity searches (ROCS, EON)
• Python-scriptable: easily customizable and extensible
• State file generation: captures the view and any attached information for distribution
• Supported on Linux, Windows^® and Mac OS X

The primary features of VIVANT include:

• Reads VIDA and AFITT state files
• Navigation through bookmarked views of a scene and/or live interaction with the scene
• Supports Microsoft PowerPoint^®, Internet Explorer through ActiveX^®, Mozilla Firefox through LiveConnect
• JavaScript is enabled with VIVANT as an ActiveX^® component
• Supported on Windows^®