Research

Methods, publications and open code.

Explore the peer reviewed and preprint research behind Acellera's biomolecular simulation, machine learning and drug discovery software.

01 How we work

Applied research, with partners, in the open

Since 2006 we have supported applied research into biomolecular simulation methods and machine learning predictors through agreements with academic institutions. The results go into journals with DOIs, and much of the code goes onto GitHub.

For routine academic use, start with HTMD or the free research tools on Open PlayMolecule. Institutions with a defined scientific question, project lead and funding context can propose a research collaboration.

Use HTMD Open PlayMolecule Propose a funded collaboration

Python ecosystem

ACEMD® Toolkit brings together the ACEMD engine, HTMD, MoleculeKit, TorchMD and TorchMD-Net, AceFF and related components for molecular physics and simulation. Much of the ecosystem is open source.

Open access

open.playmolecule.org hosts a molecular viewer, preparation tools and affinity predictors, free to use in the browser.

Licence

Licensing varies by component. The ACEMD engine is free for non commercial research and requires a licence for commercial use. See ACEMD Toolkit.

02 Publications

Publications, searchable

75 publications and preprints listed
Open code and browser based research tools
2006 Acellera founded

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  • Evaluating Electrostatic Embedding MLIP/MM for Relative Binding Free Energy Calculations

    Farr, Stephen E.; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    arXiv preprint, 2026

    Protein-Ligand Binding View publication
  • Structure-guided molecular design with contrastive 3D protein-ligand learning

    Navarro, Carles; Thölke, Philipp; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    arXiv preprint, 2026

    Applications View publication
  • Thermodynamics-Informed Accurate pKa Prediction and Protonation State Generation in PlayMolecule AI

    Pesce, Francesco; Farr, Stephen; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    arXiv preprint, 2026

    Applications View publication
  • AceFF: A State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Potential for Small Molecules

    Farr, Stephen E.; Doerr, Stefan; Mirarchi, Antonio; Sabanes Zariquiey, Francesc; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    arXiv preprint, 2026

    Molecular Simulations View publication
  • Speak to a Protein: An Interactive Multimodal Co-Scientist for Protein Analysis

    Navarro, Carles; Torrens, Mariona; Thölke, Philipp; Doerr, Stefan; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    arXiv preprint, 2025

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  • Navigating protein landscapes with a machine-learned transferable coarse-grained model

    Charron, Nicholas E.; Bonneau, Klara; Pasos-Trejo, Aldo S.; Guljas, Andrea; Chen, Yaoyi; Musil, Félix; Venturin, Jacopo; Gusew, Daria; Zaporozhets, Iryna; Krämer, Andreas; Templeton, Clark; Kelkar, Atharva; Durumeric, Aleksander E. P.; Olsson, Simon; Pérez, Adrià; Majewski, Maciej; Husic, Brooke E.; Patel, Ankit; De Fabritiis, Gianni; Noé, Frank; Clementi, Cecilia

    Nature Chemistry, 2025

    Molecular Simulations View publication
  • QuantumBind-RBFE: Accurate Relative Binding Free Energy Calculations Using Neural Network Potentials

    Sabanés Zariquiey, Francesc; Farr, Stephen E.; Doerr, Stefan; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2025

    Protein-Ligand Binding View publication
  • Broadening the Scope of Neural Network Potentials through Direct Inclusion of Additional Molecular Attributes

    Simeon, Guillem; Mirarchi, Antonio; Pelaez, Raul P.; Galvelis, Raimondas; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2025

    Molecular Simulations View publication
  • On Machine Learning Approaches for Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction

    Schapin, Nikolai; Navarro, Carles; Bou, Albert; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    arXiv preprint, 2024

    Protein-Ligand Binding View publication
  • PlayMolecule pKAce: Small Molecule Protonation through Equivariant Neural Networks

    Schapin,Nikolai; Majewski, Maciej; Torrens-Fontanals, Mariona; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    arXiv preprint, 2024

    Applications View publication
  • PlayMolecule Viewer: a toolkit for the visualization of molecules and other data

    Torrens-Fontanals, Mariona; Tourlas, Panagiotis; Doerr, Stefan; De Fabritiis, Gianni;

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2024

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  • TorchMD-Net 2.0: Fast Neural Network Potentials for Molecular Simulations

    Pelaez, Raul P; Simeon, Guillem; Galvelis, Raimondas; Mirarchi, Antonio; Eastman, Peter; Doerr, Stefan; Thölke, Philipp; Markland, Thomas E; De Fabritiis, Gianni;

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2024

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  • ACEGEN: Reinforcement learning of generative chemical agents for drug discovery

    Albert Bou, Morgan Thomas, Sebastian Dittert, Carles Navarro Ramírez, Maciej Majewski, Ye Wang, Shivam Patel, Gary Tresadern, Mazen Ahmad, Vincent Moens, Woody Sherman, Simone Sciabola, Gianni De Fabritiis

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.04657, 2024

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  • Enhancing Protein–Ligand Binding Affinity Predictions Using Neural Network Potentials

    Sabanés Zariquiey, Francesc; Galvelis, Raimondas; Gallicchio, Emilio; Chodera, John D; Markland, Thomas E; De Fabritiis, Gianni;

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2024

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  • Openmm 8: Molecular dynamics simulation with machine learning potentials

    Eastman, Peter; Galvelis, Raimondas; Peláez, Raúl P; Abreu, Charlles RA; Farr, Stephen E; Gallicchio, Emilio; Gorenko, Anton; Henry, Michael M; Hu, Frank; Huang, Jing;

    The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023

    Molecular Simulations View publication
  • NNP/MM: Accelerating molecular dynamics simulations with machine learning potentials and molecular mechanics

    Galvelis, Raimondas; Varela-Rial, Alejandro; Doerr, Stefan; Fino, Roberto; Eastman, Peter; Markland, Thomas E; Chodera, John D; De Fabritiis, Gianni;

    Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2023

    ACEMD/HTMD/AceCloud View publication
  • Top-Down Machine Learning of Coarse-Grained Protein Force Fields

    Navarro, Carles; Majewski, Maciej; De Fabritiis, Gianni;

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2023

    Molecular Simulations View publication
  • Validation of the Alchemical Transfer Method for the Estimation of Relative Binding Affinities of Molecular Series

    Sabanés Zariquiey, Francesc; Pérez, Adrià; Majewski, Maciej; Gallicchio, Emilio; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2023

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  • Machine learning coarse-grained potentials of protein thermodynamics

    Majewski, Maciej; Pérez, Adrià; Thölke, Philipp; Doerr, Stefan; Charron, Nicholas E; Giorgino, Toni; Husic, Brooke E; Clementi, Cecilia; Noé, Frank; De Fabritiis, Gianni;

    Nature Communications, 2023

    Molecular Simulations View publication
  • Machine Learning Small Molecule Properties in Drug Discovery

    Schapin, Nikolai; Majewski, Maciej; Varela-Rial, Alejandro; Arroniz, Carlos; De Fabritiis, Gianni;

    Artificial Intelligence Chemistry, 2023

    Molecular Simulations View publication
  • TorchRL: A data-driven decision-making library for PyTorch

    Bou, Albert; Bettini, Matteo; Dittert, Sebastian; Kumar, Vikash; Sodhani, Shagun; Yang, Xiaomeng; De Fabritiis, Gianni; Moens, Vincent;

    ICLR 2024, arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.00577, 2023

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  • Structure based virtual screening: Fast and slow

    Varela‐Rial, Alejandro; Majewski, Maciej; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science, 2022

    Protein-Ligand Binding View publication
  • PlayMolecule glimpse: Understanding protein–ligand property predictions with interpretable neural networks

    Varela-Rial, Alejandro; Maryanow, Iain; Majewski, Maciej; Doerr, Stefan; Schapin, Nikolai; Jiménez-Luna, José; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2022

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  • TorchMD-NET: Equivariant Transformers for Neural Network based Molecular Potentials

    Thölke, Philipp; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    International Conference on Learning Representations, 2022

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  • TorchMD: A deep learning framework for molecular simulations

    Doerr, Stefan; Majewski, Maciej; Pérez, Adrià; Kramer, Andreas; Clementi, Cecilia; Noe, Frank; Giorgino, Toni; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2021

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  • AdaptiveBandit: A Multi-armed Bandit Framework for Adaptive Sampling in Molecular Simulations

    Adrià Pérez, Pablo Herrera-Nieto, Stefan Doerr, and Gianni De Fabritiis

    J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2020

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  • Small molecule modulation of intrinsically disordered proteins using molecular dynamics simulations

    Herrera-Nieto, Pablo; Pérez, Adrià; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2020

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  • Characterization of partially ordered states in the intrinsically disordered N-terminal domain of p53 using millisecond molecular dynamics simulations

    Herrera-Nieto, Pablo; Pérez, Adrià; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Scientific reports, 2020

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  • SkeleDock: a web application for scaffold docking in PlayMolecule

    Varela-Rial, Alejandro; Majewski, Maciej; Cuzzolin, Alberto; Martínez-Rosell, Gerard; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2020

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  • PlayMolecule CrypticScout: predicting protein cryptic sites using mixed-solvent molecular simulations

    Martinez-Rosell, Gerard; Lovera, Silvia; Sands, Zara A; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2020

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  • Shape-based generative modeling for de novo drug design

    Skalic, Miha; Jiménez, José; Sabbadin, Davide; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2019

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  • Reconstruction of apo A2A receptor activation pathways reveal ligand-competent intermediates and state-dependent cholesterol hotspots

    Lovera, Silvia; Cuzzolin, Alberto; Kelm, Sebastian; De Fabritiis, Gianni; Sands, Zara A

    Scientific Reports, 2019

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  • DeltaDelta neural networks for lead optimization of small molecule potency

    Jiménez-Luna, José; Pérez-Benito, Laura; Martinez-Rosell, Gerard; Sciabola, Simone; Torella, Rubben; Tresadern, Gary; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Chemical science, 2019

    Applications View publication
  • LigVoxel: inpainting binding pockets using 3D-convolutional neural networks

    Skalic, Miha; Varela-Rial, Alejandro; Jiménez, José; Martínez-Rosell, Gerard; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Bioinformatics, 2019

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  • From target to drug: generative modeling for the multimodal structure-based ligand design

    Skalic, Miha; Sabbadin, Davide; Sattarov, Boris; Sciabola, Simone; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Molecular pharmaceutics, 2019

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  • A Scalable Molecular Force Field Parameterization Method Based on Density Functional Theory and Quantum-Level Machine Learning

    Galvelis, Raimondas; Doerr, Stefan; Damas, João M; Harvey, Matt; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2019

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  • PathwayMap: molecular pathway association with self-normalizing neural networks

    Jimenez, Jose; Sabbadin, Davide; Cuzzolin, Alberto; Martinez-Rosell, Gerard; Gora, Jacob; Manchester, John; Duca, Jose; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2018

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  • PlayMolecule BindScope: Large scale CNN-based virtual screening on the web

    Skalic, Miha; Martínez-Rosell, Gerard; Jiménez, José; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Bioinformatics, 2018

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  • Dopamine D3 receptor antagonist reveals a cryptic pocket in aminergic GPCRs

    Ferruz, Noelia; Doerr, Stefan; Vanase-Frawley, Michelle A; Zou, Yaozhong; Chen, Xiaomin; Marr, Eric S; Nelson, Robin T; Kormos, Bethany L; Wager, Travis T; Hou, Xinjun; Villalobos, Anabella; Sciabola, Simone; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Scientific reports, 2018

    Protein-Ligand Binding View publication
  • Molecular-simulation-driven fragment screening for the discovery of new CXCL12 inhibitors

    Martinez-Rosell, Gerard; Harvey, Matt J; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2018

    Fragment Based Drug Discovery View publication
  • K deep: protein–ligand absolute binding affinity prediction via 3d-convolutional neural networks

    Jiménez, José; Skalic, Miha; Martinez-Rosell, Gerard; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2018

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  • Drug discovery and molecular dynamics: methods, applications and perspective beyond the second timescale

    Martinez-Rosell, Gerard; Giorgino, Toni; Harvey, Matt J; de Fabritiis, Gianni

    Current topics in medicinal chemistry, 2017

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  • PlayMolecule ProteinPrepare: a web application for protein preparation for molecular dynamics simulations

    Martínez-Rosell, Gerard; Giorgino, Toni; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2017

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  • Optimizing Proteins and Ligands for Computerized Drug Discovery

    Damas, João; Cuzzolin, Alberto; Galvelis, Raimondas; Doerr, Stefan; Martínez-Rosell, Gerard; Harvey, Matt; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    2017

    Applications View publication
  • Dimensionality reduction methods for molecular simulations

    Doerr, Stefan; Ariz-Extreme, Igor; Harvey, Matthew J; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.10629, 2017

    Molecular Simulations View publication
  • DeepSite: protein-binding site predictor using 3D-convolutional neural networks

    Jiménez, José; Doerr, Stefan; Martínez-Rosell, Gerard; Rose, Alexander S; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Bioinformatics, 2017

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  • High-throughput automated preparation and simulation of membrane proteins with HTMD

    Doerr, Stefan; Giorgino, Toni; Martínez-Rosell, Gerard; Damas, Joao M; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2017

    ACEMD/HTMD/AceCloud View publication
  • Complete protein–protein association kinetics in atomic detail revealed by molecular dynamics simulations and Markov modelling

    Plattner, Nuria; Doerr, Stefan; De Fabritiis, Gianni; Noé, Frank

    Nature chemistry, 2017

    Conformational Studies View publication
  • Binding kinetics in drug discovery

    Ferruz, Noelia; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Molecular Informatics, 2016

    Protein-Ligand Binding View publication
  • Multibody cofactor and substrate molecular recognition in the myo-inositol monophosphatase enzyme

    Ferruz, Noelia; Tresadern, Gary; Pineda-Lucena, Antonio; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Scientific reports, 2016

    Protein-Ligand Binding View publication
  • HTMD: high-throughput molecular dynamics for molecular discovery

    Doerr, S; Harvey, MJ; Noé, Frank; De Fabritiis, G

    Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2016

    ACEMD/HTMD/AceCloud View publication
  • The pathway of ligand entry from the membrane bilayer to a lipid G protein-coupled receptor

    Stanley, Nathaniel; Pardo, Leonardo; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Scientific reports, 2016

    Membrane Proteins View publication
  • Insights from fragment hit binding assays by molecular simulations

    Ferruz, Noelia; Harvey, Matthew J; Mestres, Jordi; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2015

    Fragment Based Drug Discovery View publication
  • AceCloud: molecular dynamics simulations in the cloud

    Harvey, Matt J; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2015

    ACEMD/HTMD/AceCloud View publication
  • Detection of new biased agonists for the serotonin 5-HT2A receptor: modeling and experimental validation

    Martí-Solano, Maria; Iglesias, Alba; de Fabritiis, Gianni; Sanz, Ferran; Brea, José; Loza, M Isabel; Pastor, Manuel; Selent, Jana

    Molecular pharmacology, 2015

    Fragment Based Drug Discovery View publication
  • HTMD: A complete software workspace for simulation-guided drug design

    Doerr, Stefan; Harvey, Matt; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2015

    ACEMD/HTMD/AceCloud View publication
  • Kinetic modulation of a disordered protein domain by phosphorylation

    Stanley, Nathaniel; Esteban-Martín, Santiago; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Nature communications, 2014

    Conformational Studies View publication
  • Kinetic characterization of fragment binding in AmpC β-lactamase by high-throughput molecular simulations

    Bisignano, Paola; Doerr, Stefan; Harvey, Matt J; Favia, Angelo D; Cavalli, Andrea; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2014

    Conformational Studies View publication
  • Membrane lipids are key modulators of the endocannabinoid-hydrolase FAAH

    Dainese, Enrico; De Fabritiis, Gianni; Sabatucci, Annalaura; Oddi, Sergio; Angelucci, Clotilde Beatrice; Di Pancrazio, Chiara; Giorgino, Toni; Stanley, Nathaniel; Del Carlo, Michele; Cravatt, Benjamin F

    Biochemical Journal, 2014

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  • On-the-fly learning and sampling of ligand binding by high-throughput molecular simulations

    Doerr, S; De Fabritiis, G

    Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2014

    ACEMD/HTMD/AceCloud View publication
  • Reranking docking poses using molecular simulations and approximate free energy methods

    Lauro, G; Ferruz, Noelia; Fulle, Simone; Harvey, Matt J; Finn, Paul W; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2014

    Molecular Simulations View publication
  • Identification of slow molecular order parameters for Markov model construction

    Pérez-Hernández, Guillermo; Paul, Fabian; Giorgino, Toni; De Fabritiis, Gianni; Noé, Frank

    The Journal of chemical physics, 2013

    ACEMD/HTMD/AceCloud View publication
  • Kinetic characterization of the critical step in HIV-1 protease maturation

    Sadiq, S Kashif; Noé, Frank; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012

    Conformational Studies View publication
  • High-throughput molecular dynamics: the powerful new tool for drug discovery

    Harvey, Matthew J; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Drug discovery today, 2012

    Molecular Simulations View publication
  • Thumbs down for HIV: domain level rearrangements do occur in the NNRTI-bound HIV-1 reverse transcriptase

    Wright, David W; Sadiq, S Kashif; De Fabritiis, Gianni; Coveney, Peter V

    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012

    Conformational Studies View publication
  • Visualizing the induced binding of SH2-phosphopeptide

    Giorgino, T; Buch, I; De Fabritiis, G

    Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2012

    Protein-Ligand Binding View publication
  • Optimized potential of mean force calculations for standard binding free energies

    Buch, Ignasi; Sadiq, S Kashif; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2011

    Applications View publication
  • A high-throughput steered molecular dynamics study on the free energy profile of ion permeation through gramicidin A

    Giorgino, Toni; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2011

    Applications View publication
  • Complete reconstruction of an enzyme-inhibitor binding process by molecular dynamics simulations

    Buch, Ignasi; Giorgino, Toni; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011

    Protein-Ligand Binding View publication
  • Explicit solvent dynamics and energetics of HIV‐1 protease flap opening and closing

    Sadiq, S Kashif; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 2010

    Conformational Studies View publication
  • Induced effects of sodium ions on dopaminergic G-protein coupled receptors

    Selent, Jana; Sanz, Ferran; Pastor, Manuel; De Fabritiis, Gianni

    PLoS Computational Biology, 2010

    Membrane Proteins View publication
  • High-throughput all-atom molecular dynamics simulations using distributed computing

    Buch, I; Harvey, Matt J; Giorgino, T; Anderson, DP; De Fabritiis, G

    Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2010

    Applications View publication
  • ACEMD: Accelerating biomolecular dynamics in the microsecond time scale

    Harvey, MJ; Giupponi, G; De Fabritiis, G

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2009

    ACEMD/HTMD/AceCloud View publication
  • An implementation of the smooth particle mesh Ewald method on GPU hardware

    Harvey, MJ; De Fabritiis, G

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2009

    Conformational Studies View publication
  • The impact of accelerator processors for high-throughput molecular modeling and simulation

    Giupponi, G; Harvey, MJ; De Fabritiis, G

    Drug discovery today, 2008

    Molecular Simulations View publication

03 Funded projects

International and EU funded projects

Cloud-HTMD

A cloud application platform for rational drug discovery using high throughput molecular dynamics.

European SME innovation Associate (H2020-INNOSUP-02-2016, Grant Agreement 739649)

CCFBLD-CHEMO

Computer-Centric Fragment Based Ligand Discovery for the Development of candidate molecules targeting the chemkine system.

Nuclis d’Innovació Tecnològica 2014. Acció, Generalitat de Catalunya. Nuclis Transnacionals Programa Bilateral Catalunya-Israel, Project nr. RDIS14-1-0002. 2014-2016

HTMD

Feasibility assessment of a cloud application platform for rational drug design using high-throughput.

H2020 SME Instrument 2014, Grant Agreement nr. 674659. 2015

CompBioMed

A Centre of Excellence in Computational Biomedicine.

H2020-EINFRA-2015-1, Grant Agreement nr. 675451. 2016-2019

CompBioMed2

A Centre of Excellence in Computational Biomedicine.

H2020-INFRAEDI-02-2018, Grant Agreement nr. 823712. 2019-2023

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