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Fast Free Energies Predictions

Discover drugs with speed and ease using the OpenEye Affinity (OE Affinity) set of tools designed to accurately estimate binding free energies.

With a focus on cutting-edge science and technology, OE Affinity simplifies the process of drug discovery by delivering powerful tools directly to your web browser on Orion® cloud modeling platform. There's no software to install; all you need is a web browser. Simply log in and get started!

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OpenEye’s Affinity tools let you calculate binding free energies, with accuracy and speed. Scientists can access the automated process conveniently from their web browsers.

Features

  • Proven. Adapted from published work from the DeGroot Lab at Max Planck Institute
  • Accurate. Validated on internal and external datasets
  • Flexible. Edge mapper options for connecting ligands include OELOMAP, Star Map, Binary Star Map, and Multi-Star Map
  • Easy-to-Use. Quickly get up and running in a familiar Orion web-based environment
  • Automated. Simple process from system set-up, mapping, end-point equilibration, and free energy calculation
  • Performance. Extremely fast and highly parallelizable; run an entire ligand dataset in a few hours
  • Control. Highly customizable for novice use and expert control
  • Integrated. Easily combine with other ligand- and structure-based methods

Rooted in Science, Optimized for Performance, Made for You

OpenEye provides efficient and effective solutions for estimating binding free energies of protein-ligand complexes, with various options tailored to suit your needs:

  • OE SZYBKI: When speed is crucial. A highly efficient method for performing force field energy evaluations or geometry optimizations on small molecule ligands and protein-ligand complexes.
  • OE Affinity Scoring: When computational cost is a concern. A fast, approximate solution that combines physics-based and knowledge-based scoring. Fully automated for ease of use, OE Affinity Scoring delivers quick relative binding free energy estimates from short molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories, coupled with MM/PBSA scoring.
  • OE Affinity Relative Binding: When only the most rigorous results will do. A robust and accurate thermodynamic method for calculating relative binding free energies. Based on the Non-Equilibrium Switching (NES) technique developed at the Max Planck Institute, OpenEye has enhanced both the methodology and its performance.

Our comprehensive solution ensure you get the benefit of speed, performance, and accuracy while saving time and money.

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OpenEye offers automated, turn-key scientific solutions for various methodologies to meet all your binding affinity prediction needs.

Easy, Efficient, and Automated Mapping

With OE Affinity, users can easily create a mapper and choose from a range of options. The automated edge mappers for connecting ligands in binding free energy calculations include OELOMAP, Star Map, and Binary Star Map, and Multi-Star Map.

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The OE Affinity Mapper optimizes the Non-Equilibrium Switching (NES) process by selecting efficient "edges"—transformations between ligands. These transformations enable fast binding free energy estimation for the entire ligand set. Edge selection combines Maximum Common Substructure (MCS) similarities and OpenEye's ROCS (shape and color) Score for improved accuracy.

Offering Flexibility with the Interactive Edge Mapper

Using the interactive edge mapper, users can seamlessly add or remove edges and generate new star maps with the selected ligand as the central hub. The updated edge map can be saved as a dataset for downstream free energy calculations, allowing users to enhance the edge map with human expertise.

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Customize edges easily with a drag-and-drop feature directly from your browser.
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Schematic depiction of OpenEye's Induced Fit Posing.

For Proteins with Flexible Binding Sites

To improve your ability to predict ligand binding affinity for proteins with flexible binding sites, consider using both Induced-Fit Posing and OE Affinity Relative Binding. Together, these tools offer more accurate predictions of ligand-protein interactions.

Learn more about Induced-Fit Posing

FAQs

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OpenEye offers a fully automated workflow to streamline your calculations, from protein-ligand preparation to free energy analysis. The workflow is also customizable, providing experts with greater control and flexibility.

Learn More

OE Affinity can help you estimate relative binding free energies, speed up your drug-design process, and save costs by reducing failure rates.

Download the OpenEye Science Brief to discover how Non-Equilibrium Switching (NES) provides an efficient method for calculating relative binding free energies.

Download the OpenEye Science Brief to explore how Non-Equilibrium Switching (NES) enhances enrichment across a wide range of protein targets and ligand chemistries when calculating relative binding free energies.

 

For science details, WATCH OpenEye’s miniWebinar recording from September 2021 on Using Non Equilibrium Switching for your Relative Binding Free Energies Calculations by Christopher Bayly, Ph.D.

And WATCH the OE Affinity Mapper feature presented by Gaetano Calabro, Ph.D, from June 2022

References

  1. Large scale relative protein ligand binding affinities using non-equilibrium alchemy, Gapsys et al., Chemical Science, 2020, 11, 1140-1152

 

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