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Porting Virtual Screening Applications

16 May 2013

The classic process of drug discovery in particular is long and laborious. A chemical lead must first be found, often by computationally screening millions of chemical compounds against a target. Hundreds or even thousands of compounds must then be synthesised around this lead to try to identify one with the correct combination of properties to [...]

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May 2013 Newsletter

15 May 2013

Field Based Chemistry Europe With just over five weeks to go, book your place now. Scientifc program presentations from GSK, Novartis, Merck Serono and Astex plus Cresset’s experts. Network with Cresset users from large pharma, biotech and academia. Free training is available at our hands-on software workshops for computational and medicinal chemists. There are just [...]

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Presentations from the Spring ACS 2013

15 May 2013

The spring meeting of the ACS saw Cresset presenting a comparison of Spark, with a quantum mechanical approach NEAT that was published last year, and discussion on the best way to prepare datasets protesting virtual screening and the development of the BlazeGPU. Tim Cheeseright presented a detailed study on the use of Spark for scaffold [...]

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Tips and Tricks for Forge

14 May 2013

forgeV10.1 was released in March 2013 with a number of new features. We also made a number of improvements to usability and workflow in response to user feedback and our own internal project work. We use our software on an everyday basis for our consulting projects, so we know the difference that these improvements make [...]

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Ligand Based Virtual Screening as a Service

13 May 2013

“Above and beyond the physical data output, it is often the insight that is gained from the project that is the most useful deliverable.” Cresset Consulting has been providing modeling and computational chemistry support for drug discovery projects for over a decade. We have collaborated with academics, biotechs and big pharma offering a unique blend [...]

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