Chemical Computing Group is a

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company specializing in research software for

computational chemistry Computational chemistry is a branch of chemistry that uses computer simulation to assist in solving chemical problems. It uses methods of theoretical chemistry, incorporated into computer programs, to calculate the structures and properties of m ...

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...

, cheminformatics, docking, pharmacophore searching and molecular simulation. The company's main customer base consists of

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and

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companies, as well as

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research groups. It is a private company that was founded in 1994; it is based in

Montreal, Quebec Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-pea ...

, Canada. Its main product, Molecular Operating Environment (MOE), is written in a self-contained programming system, the

Scientific Vector Language SVL or Scientific Vector Language is a programming language created by Chemical Computing Group Chemical Computing Group is a software company specializing in research software for computational chemistry, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, doc ...

(SVL).

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* MOE (Molecular Operating Environment) MOE is a drug discovery software platform that integrates visualization, modeling, and simulations, as well as methodology development. MOE scientific applications are used by biologists, medicinal chemists and computational chemists in pharmaceutical, biotechnology and academic research. MOE runs on

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, and

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. Main application areas: Structure-Based Design, Fragment-Based Design, Pharmacophore Discovery, Medicinal Chemistry Applications, Biologics Applications, Protein and Antibody Modeling, Molecular Modeling and Simulations, Cheminformatics & QSAR * PSILO: A Protein Structure Database SystemPSILO: A Protein Structure Database System
/ref> PSILO is a protein structure database system that provides a repository for macromolecular and protein-ligand structural information. It allows research organizations to track, register and search both experimental and computational macromolecular structural data. A web-browser interface facilitates the searching and accessing of public and private structural data.

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at ACS National Meetings
Review of MOE 2005.06

Molecular fingerprints in MOE
* Discussion of Binary QSAR: Jürgen Bajorath (2004), Chemoinformatics: Concepts, Methods, and Tools for Drug Discovery page 92 {{ISBN, 978-1-58829-261-2 Research support companies Software companies of Canada Companies based in Montreal Molecular modelling software

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