CCL: CCG announces the new version of PSILO

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 CHEMICAL COMPUTING GROUP ANNOUNCES THE NEW VERSION OF THEIR PROTEIN STRUCTURE
 DATABASE SYSTEM: PSILO
 MONTREAL, Canada  October 29, 2010  Chemical Computing Group (CCG) is happy to
 announce the release of PSILO version 2010.09. PSILO is a protein structure
 database system that allows for an integrated repository of proprietary and
 non-proprietary structural data. With PSILO, experimental and computational
 macromolecular structural data can be registered, annotated, tracked and shared
 across organizational departments. PSILO provides powerful bioinformatics and
 cheminformatics searches with analysis and visualization capabilities through a
 standard web browser interface.
 Some of the new and enhanced capabilities in PSILO 2010.09 are:
     * 3D searches for protein-ligand and protein-protein interactions
     * Faster pocket similarity searching
     * Automatic protein kinase annotation to identify the hinge, HRD motif,
 G-loop, etc., regions
 PSILOs simple yet powerful Google-like search bar allows researchers to apply
 multiple combinations of text, sequence, 2D substructure and 3D geometry to
 their search criteria. Were pleased to announce PSILO 2010.09, a product with
 superior capabilities than competing protein structure databases in the market
 mentioned Paul Labute, president and CEO of CCG. With PSILOs new powerful 3D
 search, researchers can now query structural data directly from standard
 sketchers, facilitating searches for common contacts and other motifs in the
 protein structure database added Paul.
 PSILO 2010.09 comes with a faster and enhanced pocket similarity search. It
 automatically maintains a pocket database with an annotated ligand environment.
 Paul Labute said, PSILO can search for and score similar binding pockets in
 dissimilar proteins, allowing organizations to identify cases of convergent
 evolution and off-target binding, recognizing potential side effects or new
 possible therapeutic areas.
 Another addition in the 2010.09 version is the automatic performance of
 bioinformatics annotations for all deposited structures: assignment of domain
 identifiers, Gene Ontology terms, SCOP classes, antibody CDR regions, kinase
 domain regions and BLAST neighbors. For additional information about PSILO
 please contact: info|-|chemcomp.com
 About Chemical Computing Group
 Chemical Computing Group (CCG) is a leading supplier of software solutions for
 Life Sciences. CCG has been in business since 1994, always providing state of
 the art applications in Drug Discovery to Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Academic
 researcher. CCGs products and services are used by biologists, medicinal
 chemists and computational chemists throughout the world. Chemical Computing
 Group has a proven track record in scientific innovation, consistently producing
 releases and upgrades for all their products. CCG has a very strong reputation
 for collaborative scientific support, maintaining support offices in both Europe
 and North America. CCG headquarter is in Montreal, Canada. For more information
 visit: www.chemcomp.com
 For additional information please contact:
 Raul Alvarez
 Senior Marketing Manager
 (514) 393-1055
 ralvarez|-|chemcomp.com