Best Drug Discovery Software in the UK
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What is Drug Discovery Software in the UK?
Drug discovery software enables pharmaceutical companies and clinical researchers to discover and develop new drugs, and study the efficacy that potential new drugs have regarding treatment outcomes. Drug discovery tools can offer features including AI, simulation, predictive analytics, and more. Compare and read user reviews of the best Drug Discovery software in the UK currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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SYNTHIA Retrosynthesis Software
Merck KGaA
Expert-coded by chemists and engineered by computer scientists, SYNTHIA™ Retrosynthesis Software enables scientists to quickly find and easily navigate innovative and novel pathways for novel and published target molecules. Quickly and efficiently scan hundreds of pathways to help you identify the best option according to your needs. Explore the most cost-effective routes to your target molecules with state of the art visualization and filtering options. Easily customize search parameters to eliminate or promote reactions, reagents or classes of molecules. Explore unique and innovative syntheses that may be unknown for building your desired molecule. Easily generate a list of commercially available starting materials for your synthesis. Benefit from ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Certification to guarantee the confidentiality, integrity, and protection of your data.Starting Price: €0 / 30 days -
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Xybion LIMS
Xybion
Xybion LIMS (formerly Labwise XD) is an all-inclusive LIMS, ELN, QMS, and DMS. Xybion LIMS drives lab workflows, instills consistency, improves data quality, and supports regulatory compliance with a complete laboratory management solution that connects with your operating systems with powerful laboratory information management and analytics. Xybion LIMS creates optimized workflows for the unique business needs of all regulated laboratories including research, diagnostics, quality control, stability studies, and more. -
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Amazon Neptune
Amazon
Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. The core of Amazon Neptune is a purpose-built, high-performance graph database engine optimized for storing billions of relationships and querying the graph with milliseconds latency. Amazon Neptune supports popular graph models Property Graph and W3C's RDF, and their respective query languages Apache TinkerPop Gremlin and SPARQL, allowing you to easily build queries that efficiently navigate highly connected datasets. Neptune powers graph use cases such as recommendation engines, fraud detection, knowledge graphs, drug discovery, and network security. Proactively detect and investigate IT infrastructure using a layered security approach. Visualize all infrastructure to plan, predict and mitigate risk. Build graph queries for near-real-time identity fraud pattern detection in financial and purchase transactions. -
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FCS Express
De Novo Software
FCS Express™ gets you from raw data to easily-understandable, beautifully formatted, presentation-ready results more easily and in less time than any other flow cytometry software. If you've ever had to copy and paste tables of data into a more user-friendly software just to get your data into a visual format that looked good and was comprehensible. If you’ve ever had to manage your data across multiple software packages - your flow cytometry software as well as something like Microsoft Excel™ or GraphPad Prism™ because you couldn’t get everything you needed in one place. Learning how to use flow cytometry software should not be an impediment to getting results from your data. FCS Express is designed to look, feel, and work like many familiar Microsoft Office™ programs so you are already halfway to being an expert with the software before you even get started.Starting Price: $53 per month -
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alvaModel
Alvascience
alvaModel is a software tool for building, validating, comparing, and applying QSAR and QSPR models. It supports regression and classification workflows based on molecular descriptors and fingerprints, with a strong focus on model transparency, interpretability, and scientific robustness. The software includes multiple data splitting strategies, variable selection methods, modeling algorithms, and comprehensive internal and external validation procedures. alvaModel provides diagnostic plots, applicability domain analysis, and model comparison tools to support the identification of reliable and predictive models. Designed according to best practices in chemometrics, alvaModel facilitates the development of interpretable models consistent with the OECD principles for QSAR validation, making it suitable for research and regulatory-oriented applications. The graphical interface guides users through the entire modeling workflow while allowing full control over each modeling step. -
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alvaBuilder
Alvascience
alvaBuilder is a no-code de novo molecular design software for generating novel chemical structures that satisfy user-defined structural, physicochemical, and modeling constraints. It enables the creation of new molecules starting from scratch or by evolving existing structures using fragment-based and rule-driven approaches. alvaBuilder integrates seamlessly with QSAR/QSPR workflows, allowing users to guide molecule generation using predictive models, descriptor ranges, and property targets. The software supports medicinal chemistry, lead optimization, and virtual screening tasks by efficiently exploring chemical space while maintaining chemical feasibility and interpretability. alvaBuilder is designed for research and industrial applications where transparent, controllable, and reproducible molecular generation is required. -
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alvaDesc
Alvascience
alvaDesc is a cheminformatics software for the calculation and analysis of molecular descriptors, fingerprints, and structural patterns for QSAR, QSPR, read-across, and machine learning applications. It computes more than 5,000 molecular descriptors (0D–3D), including constitutional, topological, geometrical, electronic, physicochemical, and fragment-based descriptors. The software also generates molecular fingerprints and structural pattern counts for similarity analysis, clustering, and classification. Integrated tools support descriptor filtering and correlation analysis for robust and reproducible modeling. alvaDesc integrates seamlessly with KNIME and Python, enabling efficient connection to external data analysis and machine learning workflows. It is widely used in academic and industrial research and supported by extensive documentation and scientific publications. -
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Alchemite
Intellegens
Alchemite provides AI-augmented physical modeling and solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from experimental and simulation data by combining machine learning with physics-informed models to improve prediction accuracy, reduce experimental costs, and optimize product and process development. Its solutions span materials discovery and design, predictive modelling of performance and reliability, multiscale modelling that connects atomistic to macroscopic behaviour, and automation of workflow tasks such as data integration, surrogate modelling, and model validation. It supports physics-aware neural networks and hybrid modelling approaches that respect underlying scientific laws while learning from data to enable faster and more accurate simulations, reduced reliance on expensive physical testing, and improved decision-making. Intellegens’ tools are applied in areas such as battery performance prediction, chemical process optimization, etc. -
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CDD Vault
Collaborative Drug Discovery
With CDD Vault, you can intuitively organize chemical structures and biological study data, and collaborate with internal or external partners through an easy to use web interface. Start your free trial and see first hand how easy it is to manage drug discovery data. Tailored for you Affordable Scales with your project team(s) Activity & Registration * Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) * Visualization * Inventory * APIs * Secure Online Hosting -
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Elucidata Polly
Elucidata
Harness the power of biomedical data with Polly. The Polly Platform helps to scale batch jobs, workflows, coding environments and visualization applications. Polly allows resource pooling and provides optimal resource allocation based on your usage requirements and makes use of spot instances whenever possible. All this leads to optimization, efficiency, faster response time and lower costs for the resources. Get access to a dashboard to monitor resource usage and cost real time and minimize overhead of resource management by your IT team. Version control is integral to Polly’s infrastructure. Polly ensures version control for your workflows and analyses through a combination of dockers and interactive notebooks. We have built a mechanism that allows the data, code and the environment co-exist. This coupled with data storage on the cloud and the ability to share projects ensures reproducibility of every analysis you perform. -
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Dotmatics
Dotmatics
Dotmatics is the global leader in R&D scientific software that connects science, data, and decision-making. Combining a workflow and data platform with best-of-breed applications, we offer the first true end-to-end solutions for biology, chemistry, formulations, data management, flow cytometry, and more. Trusted by more than 2 million researchers from the world’s leading biopharma, chemicals and materials enterprises, and academic institutions, we are dedicated to working with the scientific community to help make the world a healthier, cleaner and safer place to live. Learn more about our platform and products, including GraphPad Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, LabArchives, and more. -
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BC Platforms
BC Platforms
BC platforms leverages latest science, unique technology capabilities, and strategic partnerships to achieve our mission of revolutionizing drug discovery and personalizing care. Modular, highly configurable platform for integrated healthcare data. Open analytics framework seamlessly combining latest innovative methods, analytics and technology developments in one single platform. Superior security: ISO 27001 certified, GDPR and HIPAA compliance. Complete product portfolio enabling a modern healthcare system to fully embrace personalized medicine. Scalable deployments enabling a robust start as well as large scale healthcare operation. Accelerated translation of research insights into clinical practice with our unique end to end toolbox. We help reduce your risk, enhance your pipeline value and advance your enterprise data strategy by solving the barriers of data access and enabling rapid insight generation. -
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Atomwise
Atomwise
We use our AI engine to transform drug discovery. Our discoveries help create better medicines faster. Our AI-enabled discovery portfolio includes wholly-owned and co-developed pipeline assets, and is backed by prominent investors. Atomwise developed a machine-learning-based discovery engine that combines the power of convolutional neural networks with massive chemical libraries to discover new small-molecule medicines. The secret to reinventing drug discovery with AI is people. We are dedicated to developing the best AI platform and using it to transform small molecule drug discovery. We have to tackle the most challenging, seemingly impossible targets and streamline the drug discovery process to give drug developers more shots on goal. Computational efficiency enables screening of trillions of compounds in silico, increasing the likelihood of success. Demonstrated exquisite model accuracy, overcoming the challenge of false positives. -
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LigPlot+
EMBL-EBI
LigPlot+ is a successor to our original LIGPLOT program for the automatic generation of 2D ligand-protein interaction diagrams. It is run from an intuitive java interface that allows on-screen editing of the plots via mouse click-and-drag operations. In addition to the new interface, the program includes several major enhancements over the old version. When two or more ligand-protein complexes are sufficiently similar, LigPlot+ can automatically display their interaction diagrams either superposed or side by side. Any conserved interactions are highlighted. The LigPlot+ suite also now includes an update of the original DIMPLOT program for plotting protein-protein or domain-domain interactions. Users can flexibly select the interface of interest and DIMPLOT will then generate a diagram showing the residue-residue interactions across the interface. To assist in interpretation, the residues in one of the interfaces can be optionally displayed in sequence order. -
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Pristima
Xybion
In many laboratories, preclinical information resides in numerous internal systems and among several external partners. Without a unified solution, team members lack the necessary transparency of core business data to enable clear and informative decisions. Pristima is a fully integrated digital laboratory execution system with intelligent workflows, task automation, connected systems and facilities, and data and information management for the entire preclinical process. With a central data repository and standardized archive platform, Xybion has created a total preclinical solution platform to help you improve productivity and reduce costs. Gain visibility into information where it resides and initiate actions based on current business requirements with complete transparency across all platforms. Decrease end-of-study to final SEND submission timelines with effective data management. -
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Eidogen-Sertanty Target Informatics Platform (TIP)
Eidogen-Sertanty
Eidogen-Sertanty's Target Informatics Platform (TIP) is the world's first structural informatics system and knowledgebase that enables researchers with the ability to interrogate the druggable genome from a structural perspective. TIP amplifies the rapidly expanding body of experimental protein structure information and transforms structure-based drug discovery from a low-throughput, data-scarce discipline into a high-throughput, data-rich science. Designed to help bridge the knowledge gap between bioinformatics and cheminformatics, TIP supplies drug discovery researchers with a knowledge base of information that is both distinct from and highly complementary to information furnished by existing bio- and cheminformatics platforms. TIP's seamless integration of structural data management technology with unique target-to-lead calculation and analysis capabilities enhances all stages of the discovery pipeline. -
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Bruker Drug Discovery
Bruker
Bringing a new drug into the market, from the first step to the final market introduction, is a time-consuming, highly regulated, and expensive process, which can take a decade or more. Final success crucially depends on the early availability of accurate analytical results, fast enough for taking the right decisions at the beginning of the development and minimizing late attrition rates. Today’s drug development is mainly based on a rational approach where typically establishing the biological target to focus on is the first key step. This target identification requires a deep understanding of the candidates´ properties to identify the most promising ones as quickly and reliable as possible. Once a biological target has been established, finding the most promising lead molecules is often seen as the next challenge. Typically, lead discovery is the identification of potential drug candidates – either small organic molecules or biologic assemblies with therapeutic potential. -
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Phoenix PK/PD Platform
Certara
With all the tools you need in a single, interoperable platform, effortlessly share pre-clinical and clinical knowledge across your organization through secure and consistent workflows using Phoenix-based tools and 3rd-party applications. Phoenix WinNonlin is the first choice for non-compartmental analysis (NCA), toxicokinetic modeling, and pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) modeling by over 6,000 researchers at biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and 11 global regulatory agencies, including the US FDA, EMA, PMDA and more. The Phoenix Platform also features population PK/PD (popPK) modeling with Phoenix NLME and Level A correlation via the Phoenix IVIVC Toolkit, Validation Suites provide fast and easy software validation in under 30 minutes. -
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Genedata Imagence
Genedata
Genedata Imagence® lets you train a deep neural network to classify cellular phenotypes in HCS images for unbiased, high-quality results. It automates your analysis to put the power of deep learning algorithms in the hands of assay biologists. Genedata Imagence empowers biologists to directly and immediately analyze HCS imaging data using sophisticated deep learning techniques without any specialized algorithmic expertise. Don’t shroud your analysis under abstract lines of code. The Genedata Imagence intuitive interface allows you to easily QC and explore data every step of the way. -
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Genedata Biologics
Genedata
Genedata Biologics® streamlines discovery of biotherapeutics including bispecifics, ADCs, TCRs, CAR-Ts, and AAVs. The most widely adopted platform across the industry, it integrates all discovery workflows so you can focus on true innovation. Accelerate research with a first-in-class platform uniquely designed from the start to digitalize biotherapeutic discovery. The platform facilitates complex R&D processes by designing, tracking, testing, and assessing novel biotherapeutics drugs. It works with any format, from antibodies, bi- or multi-specifics, ADCs, novel scaffolds, and therapeutic proteins, to engineered therapeutic cell lines such as TCRs and CAR-T cells. Acting as a central end-to-end data backbone, Genedata Biologics integrates all R&D processes, from library design and immunizations, selections and panning, molecular biology, screening, protein engineering, expression, purification, and protein analytics, to candidate developability and manufacturability assessments. -
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StarDrop
Optibrium
With its comprehensive suite of integrated software, StarDrop™ delivers best-in-class in silico technologies within a highly visual and user-friendly interface. StarDrop™ enables a seamless flow from the latest data through predictive modeling to decision-making regarding the next round of synthesis and research, improving the speed, efficiency, and productivity of the discovery process. Successful compounds require a balance of many different properties. StarDrop™ guides you through this multi-parameter optimization challenge to target compounds with the best chance of success, saving you time and resources by enabling you to synthesize and test fewer compounds. -
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Simulations Plus
Simulations Plus
Our reputation as thought leaders in the areas of ADMET property prediction, physiologically-based pharmacokinetics (PBPK) modeling, pharmacometrics, and quantitative systems pharmacology/toxicology is earned through the success our clients have found through their relationship with us. We have the talent and 20+ years of experience to translate science into user-friendly software and provide expert consulting supporting drug discovery, clinical development research, and regulatory submissions. -
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metaphactory
metaphacts
metaphactory transforms your data into consumable, contextual & actionable knowledge and drives continuous decision intelligence. Out-of-the-box, intuitive interfaces for searching, browsing & exploring your Knowledge Graph. Low-code approach to building custom interfaces that enable business-user interaction with the Knowledge Graph. Start small, iterate often & add new use cases, new data and new users on the fly. Agile knowledge management & low-code platform for building applications. -
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Genomenon
Genomenon
Pharma companies need comprehensive genomic information to drive successful precision medicine programs, but decisions are often made using only a fraction of the data available, about 10%. Genomenon delivers 100% of the data. An efficient and cost-effective natural history research solution for pharma, ProdigyTM Patient Landscapes support the development of rare disease therapies by enhancing insights contained in retrospective and prospective health data. Using a powerful AI-driven approach, Genomenon delivers a comprehensive and expert assessment of every patient in the published medical literature, in a fraction of the time. Don’t miss anything, get insight into every genomic biomarker published in the medical literature. Every scientific assertion is supported by empirical evidence from the medical literature. Identify all genetic drivers and pinpoint which variants are known to be pathogenic according to ACMG clinical standards. -
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NVIDIA BioNeMo
NVIDIA
BioNeMo is an AI-powered drug discovery cloud service and framework built on NVIDIA NeMo Megatron for training and deploying large biomolecular transformer AI models at a supercomputing scale. The service includes pre-trained large language models (LLMs) and native support for common file formats for proteins, DNA, RNA, and chemistry, providing data loaders for SMILES for molecular structures and FASTA for amino acid and nucleotide sequences. The BioNeMo framework will also be available for download for running on your own infrastructure. ESM-1, based on Meta AI’s state-of-the-art ESM-1b, and ProtT5 are transformer-based protein language models that can be used to generate learned embeddings for tasks like protein structure and property prediction. OpenFold, a deep learning model for 3D structure prediction of novel protein sequences, will be available in BioNeMo service. -
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AIDDISON
Merck KGaA
AIDDISON™ drug discovery software combines the power of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and 3D computer-aided drug design (CADD) methods to act as a valuable toolkit for medicinal chemistry needs. As a unified platform for efficient and effective ligand-based and structure-based drug design, it integrates all the facets for virtual screening and supports methods for in-silico lead discovery and lead optimization. -
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Metabolon
Metabolon
At Metabolon, we offer the largest Level 1 library in the metabolomics industry. Our proprietary library has been built and curated over 20 years and contains over 5,400 entries. The vast majority of entries in our library are Level 1 attributing approximately 85% (~4,600 entries); however, some are Level 2 (approximately 15% accounting for around 800 entries) due to a lack of commercial standards available to qualify for Level 1. Metabolon delivers accurate, highly actionable insights for our clients’ scientific or clinical inquiries due to our unmatched library breadth and industry-leading annotation confidence levels. Metabolomics applies to a wide range of research, from soil health to food nutrition and preclinical research to clinical trials. Whether you’re searching for trends in a group or refining an individual’s treatment, metabolomics can help you find answers to important questions. -
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Discngine Assay
Discngine
Discngine Assay is a laboratory informatics platform that integrates every phase of plate-based assays into a cohesive, compliant, and efficient workflow, making it an essential tool for screening research labs. It enables scientists to streamline the entire High Throughput Screening workflow, from sample management and assay data analysis to data warehousing and liquid handling equipment qualification. With its intuitive interface and robust API, Discngine Assay integrates seamlessly with Lab equipments and existing IT environment, ensuring efficient data capture and processing. Designed to accelerate new molecule discovery, it addresses the needs of pharmaceutical, biotech, and CRO industries, enhancing collaboration and driving innovation in life science research. -
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3decision
Discngine
3decision® is a cloud-based protein structure repository designed for comprehensive structural data management and advanced analytics, enabling small molecule and biologics discovery teams to accelerate structure-based drug design. It centralizes and standardizes experimental and in-silico protein structures from public sources like RCSB PDB and AlphaFoldDB, as well as proprietary data, supporting formats like PDBx/mmCIF and ModelCIF. This ensures easy access to X-Ray, NMR, cryo-EM, and modeled structures, fostering collaboration and enhancing research efforts. Beyond storage, 3decision® enriches entries with metadata and sequence information, including protein-ligand interactions, antibody annotations, and binding site details. Advanced analytical tools identify druggable sites, assess off-target risks, and enable binding site comparisons, transforming vast structural data into actionable knowledge. Its cloud-based platform facilitates collaboration among research teams. -
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Cytel
Cytel
Cytel is a leading global provider of clinical trial design software, biometric services, and advanced analytics, specializing in optimizing clinical trials and assisting pharmaceutical companies in unlocking the full potential of their clinical and real-world data. Founded in 1987 by distinguished statisticians Cyrus Mehta and Nitin Patel, Cytel has been at the forefront of adaptive clinical trial technology and biostatistical science. Our software solutions, including the East Horizon platform, empower precise trial design and simulation, utilizing adaptive and Bayesian tools to optimize protocols and accelerate drug development. The East Horizon platform integrates key components of Cytel's trusted software portfolio into a unified solution with R integration, enhancing trial design capabilities. Additionally, Cytel offers the Xact software suite, a comprehensive toolkit for statistical analyses of small datasets, and sparse, and missing data.
