Optibrium adds star dust to StarDrop and hails historic move

StarDrop 8 integrates real-time collaboration into every stage of the compound design and optimisation workflow, enabling teams to make better decisions together and progress faster from hit to candidate.

Unlike existing discovery collaboration software, StarDrop 8 is designed to deliver an all-in-one solution for medicinal chemists. It embeds collaboration directly into a platform that seamlessly combines interactive data visualisation and structure-activity relationship analyses with compound design, supported by a broad range of in silico modelling and generative chemistry capabilities.

StarDrop is designed to help scientists extract clear, actionable insights from complex discovery data. By integrating real-time collaboration within this environment, teams can leverage their collective knowledge at every step to prioritise the compounds most likely to succeed and focus synthesis efforts where they matter.

Optibrium says StarDrop 8 improves how discovery teams work together, enabling:

• Seamless collaboration by centralising all project information and analyses in a secure shared environment, accessible to users working from any location or time zone.

• More informed decision-making by ensuring everyone is working with the latest compounds and data, preventing any time lost from duplicated efforts.

• Faster problem solving by granting each user the flexibility to view and analyse project information in their own way, whilst instantly sharing insights and results with colleagues.

• Boosted productivity by capturing designs and decisions through every step of the discovery process, enabling teams to identify successful strategies and apply them to future work.

It adds that StarDrop 8 also strengthens its predictive capabilities with new and updated models for key ADME properties and additional molecular property calculators.

Edmund Champness, Chief Scientific Officer at Optibrium, said: “Drug discovery is not a solo venture. Our customers consistently tell us that to work effectively, chemists need to be sure they’re looking at exactly the same compounds and data as their colleagues.

“We’ve developed StarDrop 8 around this feedback, without compromising on StarDrop’s flexibility, which enables each user to analyse and visualise data in their own way. Its real-time collaborative environment ensures that teams stay aligned on the latest project information, regardless of distances or time zones. The result is increased productivity and improved decision-making that help address the critical challenges of time and cost in discovery.”