| Products
There are four different stages of YASARA for
Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, aimed at increasingly complicated fields of application. A certain stage contains the features of all the previous stages,
plus a number of additional functions to tackle a wider range of scientific questions.
Features with unique properties which you will not find in other programs are marked with orange buckyballs below.
YASARA View
- Molecular graphics and analysis, freely download now
. YASARA Model
- Everything above, plus molecular modeling YASARA Dynamics - Everything above, plus molecular simulations
YASARA Structure
- Everything above, plus structure prediction and validation, docking, knowledge-based potentials
YASARA NMR Module
- NMR structure determination
YASARA/WHAT IF Twinset
- Extensive structure validation (PDBReports) and WHAT IF functions Read more about the philosophy behind YASARA.
 | Stage I: YASARA View - Free download |
| |
 | |
|
YASARA View
is available for free and contains all the functions you need to explore a macromolecular structure interactively. As a bonus,
you get YASARA's innovative 3D engine, which is up to 35 times faster than what you usually know from
OpenGL (see benchmarks
), you can load multiple structures at the same time, create publication-quality ray-traced images including labels,
and program your own macros and Python plugins. Included is YASARA Movie,
a player for multimedia presentations and tutorials created with any of the higher stages,
as well as the YASARA Python module to simply 'import yasara' in your Python scripts.
Key features:
- Cross-platform and easy installation: Windows, Linux and Mac OS X in the same directory, run directly from USB stick.
- Photo-realistic molecular graphics: up to 35 times faster than other OpenGL based solutions, even the ribosome rotates smoothly in CPK mode.
- Parallel (orthographic) and perspective projection.
- Support for over 70 molecular fileformats (based on OpenBabel).
- Optimal depth perception thanks to real-time shadows and ambient lighting, even on older hardware.
- All common graphics styles: CPK, balls & sticks, sticks, traces, tubes, ribbons, cartoons, hydrogen bonds, labels, arrows.
- Ray-tracing for publication quality graphics at arbitrary resolutions, interactively move the lightsource, adjust shadows.
- Color any PDB file by sequence conservation and quality indicators (automatically mapped from HSSP/PDBFinder2).
- Superpose structures and structure ensembles, calculate proper RMSDs (minimized by flipping equivalent atoms).
- Align multiple proteins based on their structure or sequence, using a variety of methods.
- Measure distances, angles, dihedrals.
- Automatic assignment of fractional bond orders and missing hydrogen atoms, graph-theory based typing of hetero-polycycles.
- Analyze and change atomic B-factors and occupancies, rename and renumber atoms and residues.
- Extremely fast algorithms to show and update Van der Waals, molecular and solvent accessible surfaces in real-time.
- Extend YASARA with your own functions using the Python scripting language.
- Use YASARA from your Python scripts, simply 'import yasara'.
- Simple Yanaconda macro language to automate your work and create flexible animations.
- eLearning functions: interactive tutorials provide the knowledge about molecular structure, modeling and simulations
Click here for free download,
click here for screenshots, click here for a complete feature list
. |
 |
 |
 | Stage II: YASARA Model
| |
|  |
| |
YASARA Model
contains YASARA View and adds all the functions you need to explore, analyze and model small to macromolecules in a production environment. This includes many features you often miss: unlimited undo/redo,
macro recorder, quad-buffered stereo with shutter glasses or the DTI virtual window
. You can load up to 250 structures at the same time, move them around independently and create multimedia presentations
(YASARA Movies). These movies can be encoded as MPEGs and pasted into Powerpoint or played back with all stages of YASARA,
including the free YASARA View.
Key features:
- All the features of YASARA View listed above.
- Fully immersive OpenGL stereo with shutter glasses and nVIDIA Quadro cards (and others with support for quad-buffered stereo).
- Create the fanciest molecular animations with automatic rotations, movements, zooms, text in 3D letters, texture mapping of BMP and PNG images.
- Encode animations in MPEG format, paste them into Powerpoint presentations.
- Import OpenOffice Impress and Microsoft Powerpoint presentations, add molecular animations to the slides.
- Work with 250 structures at the same time, move them around independently.
- Extensive coordinate manipulation: center, join, transform, oligomerize.
- Analyze contacts, hydrogen bonds and protein secondary structure.
- Measure distances, angles and dihedrals between groups of atoms like helices or planar side-chains.
- Change distances, angles and dihedrals interactively.
- Choose a default pH from 0 to 14 when assigning fractional bond orders and adding hydrogens.
- Build atoms, residues, peptide chains, terminal caps and mutate amino acids.
- Show and calculate Van der Waals, molecular and solvent accessible surfaces, distinguish between outer and inner surfaces, calculate volumes.
- Identify cis-peptide bonds and wrong stereoisomeres.
- Store the results of your analysis in tables, import them in Excel.
- Record macros or write them with a text editor.
- Support for special input devices like SpaceBall and P5 glove (currently Linux only).
- Unlimited undo/redo.
|  |
 |
 | Stage III: YASARA Dynamics
| |
|  |
| |
YASARA Dynamics contains YASARA Model and adds support for molecular simulations. In addition to YASARA's own force fields
(NOVA, YAMBER) you can use other well known MD force fields like AMBER,
and run accurate all-atom MD simulations in aqueous solution with Particle Mesh Ewald longrange electrostatics at twice the speed you know from other programs.
YASARA Dynamics is not a "black box" with input and output files,
but shows the MD simulation in real-time on screen. You can fully interact with the scene,
pull atoms or whole molecules around and finally do the type of molecular modeling that Cyrus Levinthal already pioneered back in
1966 ("..do the same type of pulling and pushing in the computer that we can do with our hands while building actual models.
", cited from an article in Scientific American). Key features:
- All features listed for YASARA View and YASARA Model above.
- Prepare a simulation: clean proteins, predict pKas, assign protonation states, fill the simulation cell with water.
- Ultrafast (Assembly language) molecular dynamics simulations and energy minimizations in non-periodic or periodic & triclinic crystal cells.
- AMBER and newly developed force fields (NOVA, YAMBER) included, define your own force fields.
- Accurate treatment of long-range electrostatic interactions with the Particle Mesh Ewald approach.
- Parallel and reproducible simulations on multiple CPUs and CPU cores with close to ideal speedups.
- Calculate energies, binding energies and solvation energies.
- Manipulate a simulation interactively: pull atoms or entire molecules around, fix and free atoms, add restraints, toggle force field terms.
- Show the electrostatic potential in the simulation cell, color surfaces accordingly.
- Run simulations at the touch of a button even in the presence of ligands, thanks to fully automatic force field parameter assignment for the General Amber Force Field (GAFF). Semi-empirical QM point charges are calculated using either AM1BCC or AutoSMILES, a newly developed approach for hi-speed assignment of RESP charges.
- Automatic correction of cis-peptide bonds or wrong stereoisomeres for homology model refinement.
- Geometry optimization and analysis with semi-empirical MNDO/AM1/PM3 quantum chemistry using YAPAC, a built-in customized derivative of MOPAC.
- Analyze trajectories for conformational changes etc.
- Read and write trajectories in SIM or XTC format.
|  |
 |
 | Stage IV: YASARA Structure
| |
|  |
| |
YASARA Structure finally contains all the functions needed to predict and validate macromolecular structures,
including ligand docking and highly accurate force fields with knowledge-based potentials. If you already own one of the other YASARA stages,
you can upgrade easily, just contact us for a quote.
Key features:
- All features listed for YASARA View, YASARA Model and YASARA Dynamics above.
- Small-molecule docking at the touch of a button, using a tuned version of AutoDock with automatic setup and multi-CPU support. Additional support for Fleksy, an induced fit docking program based on FlexX, developed at Organon/Schering-Plough.
- Side-chain rotamer prediction combining graph-theory and dead-end elimination with accurate treatment of electrostatics, solvation and subtle packing effects.
- Knowledge-based loop modeler with a compressed index of the PDB, peptide segments spanning selected anchor residues can be located within a fraction of a second, while considering sequence and secondary structure preferences. Loops can be optimized together with surrounding side-chains, considering all energy components including solvation.
- New force fields (YASARA and YASARA2) with multi-dimensional knowledge-based components for highly accurate refinement simulations to aid protein structure determination and prediction.
- Homology modeling at the touch of a button: select the target sequence and get a homology model, combined from multiple templates, refined in explicit solvent, as well as a detailed scientific report describing how the model was built, including extensive validation with figures and quality plots.
- pH dependent hydrogen bonding network optimizer, that automatically considers ligands and determines ambiguities in X-ray density.
- Built-in BLAST and PSI-BLAST, with automatically updated SwissProt, TrEMBL and PDB sequence databases, the latter augmented with WHAT_CHECK/ PDBFinder2 validation data to rank PDB structures sharing the same sequence.
- Secondary structure prediction.
- Extensive structure validation to judge the quality of experimental structures and models, based on a new combination of force field energies and Z-scores, that yields results not only for proteins, but for all organic molecules. This allows to validate for example protein-ligands interactions, an important aspect in drug design.
- Prediction and visualization of ion binding sites using valence scanning.
|  |
 |
 | The WHAT IF / YASARA Twinset |
| |
 | |
|
The Twinset is a customized joint-distribution of
WHAT IF and YASARA Dynamics or Structure. With over
1000 citations, WHAT IF is a widely used program for structure validation and modeling. In the Twinset,
WHAT IF inherits YASARA's user interface, graphics engine, macro language, unlimited undo/redo etc,
so that WHAT IF functions become easily accessible in Linux and Windows. The Twinset is not available for Mac OS X.
The Twinset is freely available for academic use and costs
1500 € / 1950 $ for unlimited commercial use per building (this fee is waived if you own a group leader license of YASARA Dynamics or Structure). In addition,
you need 512MB RAM, 1GB of swap space and licenses for YASARA Dynamics or Structure and also WHAT IF.
Click here for WHAT IF license details
. Customers in Austria have to add 20% VAT. To order the Twinset,
just place a normal order for YASARA Dynamics and then request the Twinset upgrade from
. If you already own YASARA,
email us your YASARA serial number and WHAT IF user number.
|  |  |
|