Flare is an agile ligand-based and structure-based drug design solution enabling research chemists to discover novel small molecules more efficiently and effectively in a single platform
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Commercial organizations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Academics | Flare Essentials recommended | See academic licensing options | Option | Option |
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Flare Essentials
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Flare StructurePro
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Dedicated protein table enabling rapid inspection of specific chains or residues |
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Protein sequence alignment and superposition | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Control every protein surface with individual display options in the dedicated protein surfaces table | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Load and view electron density maps | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Check protein structures for potential problems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Prepare proteins for further calculation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Perform single point mutation for your proteins | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Protein minimization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Calculate and color protein molecular surfaces by Electrostatic Complementarity™ to specific ligands | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Calculate water thermodynamic properties using GIST | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Calculate water stability and positions using 3D-RISM with XED and Amber force fields | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Merge protein looops and equilibrate with dynamics | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Examine protein stability using OpenMM dynamics on CPU or GPU | ✓ | ✓ |
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Flare Essentials
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Flare Designer
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Flare StructurePro
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Flare LigandPro
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Flare Pro+
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Dedicated ligand table to store all ligands in your project with full visibility control, sortable on any column | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Design ligands in the active site of the protein | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Calculated physico-chemical properties for each ligand | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Calculate radial plot multi-parametric scores to select the compounds with the best properties | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Filter ligands on physico-chemical properties, structures and tags | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Visualize ligand electrostatics to gain a deep understanding of SAR | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Start a Blaze™ virtual screening experiment on millions of compounds from the GUI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Browse and retrieve Blaze search results directly, visualizing enrichment plot and statistics for each Blaze refinement level | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Easy and accurate docking of ligands using 1 CPU core including ensemble, template and covalent docking methods | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Dock ligands using multiple CPU cores including ensemble, template and covalent docking methods | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Use HPC resources to rapidly dock thousands of ligands | Option | Option | Option | |||
Minimize one or more ligands in the protein active site | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Perfect ligand design using ligand and protein electrostatics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Perfect molecular design using Electrostatic Complementarity™ maps and scores | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Explore conformations for ligands using Cresset's XED force field | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Align ligands using Cresset's patented field based algorithm or common substructure to a reference ligand | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Constrain molecular alignments to ensure specific pharmacophoric and electrostatic features are always matched | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Use multiple reference ligands to define how ligands bind you to protein | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Develop detailed models of binding starting in absence of 3D information or protein crystal structures | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Find a pharmacophore that can be used as a template for aligning other active molecule | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Automatically create the most predictive regression or classification models for activity using Machine Learning methods | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Create detailed field QSAR models for multiple activities | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Score new molecules against field QSAR and Machine Learning models | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Spot outliers in the 3D descriptor space using the PCA component plot | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Use Activity Atlas™ to calculate and display in 3D activity cliffs summaries, using 3D similarity | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Use Activity Miner™ to find and examine activity cliffs in 3D and 2D | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Use Activity Miner to find and examine selectivity cliffs using 3D and 2D similarity | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
View hierarchical clustering of your molecules using 2D or 3D similarity | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Create AMBER GAFF or AMBER GAFF2 custom parameters for your ligands, based on Quantum Mechanics calculations | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Inspect conformation populations for the molecules of interest | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Calculate CSD torsion frequencies for the rotatable bonds in a conformation population, based on the Torsion Library method | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Accurately predict ligand-protein affinity using Flare FEP | Option | Option | ||||
Create star-graph networks to explore how changes to a single compound affect ligand-protein affinity using FEP | Option | Option | ||||
Expand FEP projects with new ligands | Option | Option | ||||
Correct and re-run single, problematic links in the perturbation network | Option | Option |
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Flare Essentials
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Flare Designer
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Flare StructurePro
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Flare LigandPro
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Ribbon menu structure for quick identification of commands and controls | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Create interactive multi-series scatter plots and histograms of biological or physical properties | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | v | ✓ |
Visualize protein-ligand interactions and steric clashes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Easily compare protein-ligand complexes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Grid the 3D window by protein and ligand to compare and contrast | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Capture 3D view to the storyboard to track and communicate ideas | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Summary and detailed logging of calculations and events | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Create stunning high definition pictures for communication of results | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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Flare Essentials
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Flare StructurePro
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Access the RDKit cheminformatics toolkit | With supported version | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Create and automate workflows using the Python® API | With supported version | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Upgrade Flare with Python modules for graphing, statistics, Jupyter Notebook | With supported version | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Expand the functionality of the Flare GUI using Python extensions | With supported version | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Automate and distribute Flare calculations using pyFlare and Cresset released Python scripts and snippets | Option | Option | Option |
Flare Viewer
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Flare Essentials
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Flare Designer
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Flare StructurePro
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Flare Pro+
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KNIME™ integration | As viewer | As viewer | As viewer | With pyflare option | ||
Pipeline Pilot™ integration | As viewer | As viewer | As viewer | With pyflare option |
Flare Viewer
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Flare Essentials
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Flare Designer
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Flare StructurePro
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Flare LigandPro
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Flare Pro+
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Cresset Engine Broker™ | Option |
Flare Viewer
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Flare Essentials
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Flare Designer
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Flare StructurePro
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Email support | Option | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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