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YASARA Biosciences

YASARA is brought to you by YASARA Biosciences GmbH in close collaboration with Bio-Prodict and the WHAT IF Foundation. Our aim is to advance science by providing the community with the required research tools. Since its public launch in 2003, YASARA has steadily grown to an all-in-one solution that takes the steps from protein sequence to structure to function to drug design, and is nevertheless powerful enough to handle the large amounts of data required by structural and functional genomics projects. Due to the enormous size of the problem, collaborations with other research groups are always welcome. We generally use scientific results instead of sales-departments to convince our customers. This approach saves a lot of money, which in turn allows us to offer the software for free or at realistic, non-fantasy prices (depending on the product), for academic as well as industrial environments. Any new methods used in our programs are published in peer-reviewed journals, so that you never have to rely on brochures instead of scientific facts. By obtaining software directly out of the research lab, you can be sure not to waste money on a program whose development essentially stopped five years ago - far too long in this rapidly evolving field. If you want to contact us, just click here.


Elmar Krieger

Development of YASARA was started in 1993 by Elmar Krieger, together with his study of Molecular Biology at the University of Graz, Austria. In 1997, YASARA became the topic of his master's thesis, supervised by Prof. Günther Koraimann. In 2000, YASARA moved to the Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI) in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where Elmar became PhD student of Prof. Gert Vriend (see below). In 2002, Elmar founded YASARA Biosciences, a company located in Austria, with the aim to develop, distribute and support YASARA. Since 2003, WHAT IF and YASARA work closely together in the Twinset, providing you, the user, with over 80 man years of protein modeling expertise at the touch of a button.

Kornel Ozvoldik

Kornel Ozvoldik is YASARA's COO and lead biophysicist. He obtained his Master in Physics from the Vienna University of Technology, working on new approaches for calculating the 2-point function of the holographic dual conformal field theory to Chern-Simons gravity on a 3-dimensional Lorentzian flat space background. Since he managed to travel along this twisted path to quantum gravity without being fettered by theoretical strings, Kornel was more than qualified to dive into biophysics. He has long experience in C/C++ development, is a Pythoneer and currently working on free energy calculations, fast MD algorithms and AI. In 2024, he received his PhD from the Medical University of Vienna for his work on YASARA.

Contact address:

YASARA Biosciences GmbH
Wagramer Strasse 25/3/45
1220 Vienna
Austria / Europe
VAT-Number: ATU65614837
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www.yasara.org
Email Elmar Krieger
Bio-Prodict logo Bio-Prodict Team

Bio-Prodict BV is our partner company located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. It was founded in 2008 by Henk-Jan Joosten and has since then grown quickly to become a unique provider of knowledge in protein engineering, molecular design and DNA diagnostics. At the core of Bio-Prodict's product range are the 3DM information systems. These are protein super-family platforms that integrate many different types of protein-related data, and use YASARA for modeling and visualization. A movie that shows how this works in practice is available at the Bio-Prodict site. If you are interested in 3DM, please contact for details and pricing information.

WHAT IF Foundation Gert Vriend

Gert Vriend started programming WHAT IF in 1987 as a PostDoc in Groningen, the Netherlands. In 1989, he moved to the EMBL in Heidelberg, joining the group of Chris Sander. From 1996 on, he led the 'Vriend group' and, together with his students, added an uncountable number of options to the program. In 2000, he became Professor of Bioinformatics and head of the Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI, renamed in the mean time) in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Elmar Krieger was his first PhD student there. After 56 years of programming, and having embedded WHAT IF in the Twinset, Gert is now enjoying life with his family on a tropical island. Scientific questions related to protein structure bioinformatics can be directed tosupport email.


Contact address:

Bio-Prodict BV
Nieuwe Marktstraat 54E
6511 AA Nijmegen
The Netherlands / Europe

www.bio-prodict.nl