Dramatically increase your wet screening hit rate at a fraction of the cost using the Blaze advanced ligand-based virtual screening platform, accessible using a range of flexible deployment methods.
| Feature | Blaze | BlazeGPU | Blaze Cloud |
| Ligand based virtual screening of millions of compounds | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Find novel hits using Cresset’s Fields | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Find novel hits using pure gausian shape similarity | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customize the scoring regime to use both shape and electrostatic character of molecules | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Database of compound conformations to search is precalculated and stored to make searching faster | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Use a protein as an excluded volume to limit results to those that fit within the active site | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Use constraints to ensure specific interactions are maintained in the virtual screening results | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Search with multiple queries in a single experiment | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Automatic calculation of retrieval enrichments and plotting of retrieval curves | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Retrieve results as a text file, as 2D sdf file or as 3D alignments (sdf, mol2 or xed format) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage compound collections from multiple sources | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Compound collections are subsetted by size of molecule; choose to search complete collections, sub-sets, or specific ranges | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rapidly create custom sub-sets for your project from the master collection | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Fully definable user and project permission systems on compound collections and searches | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Complete listing of available compound collections, including details of last update, relevant permissions and number of compounds | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic management of duplicates from different compound collections, meaning you only search unique structures | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automated analysis of search performance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View system status and log files | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Interface to Sun Grid Engine (SGE) | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
| Interface to Platform’s ‘Load Sharing Facility’ (LSF) | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
| Proprietary Client-Server architecture | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
| Wizard like interface to experimental setup – just a few clicks to start a virtual screen of 10 million molecules | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| RESTful api to enable scripting and incorporation into workflows | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Command line interface to enable scripting and incorporation into workflows | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Setup experiments and browse results using a web browser | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Connect using https encrypted connection | ✓ | ||
| Wizard like interface to experimental setup – just a few clicks to start a virtual screen of 10 million molecules | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Virtual Machine as host that only exists during the project | ✓ | ||
| Searches use as many CPU cores as you have available | ✓ | ||
| Searches uses all GPU resources that you have available | ✓ | ||
| Included in a Blaze site license | ✓ | ✓ |