Best Drug Discovery Software in Japan
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What is Drug Discovery Software in Japan?
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 Japan 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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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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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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BIOiSIM
VERISIMLife
BIOiSIMTM is a first-in-class 'virtual drug development engine' that offers unprecedented value for the drug development industry by narrowing down the number of drug compounds that offer anticipated value for the treatment or cure of specific illnesses or diseases. We offer a range of translational-based solutions, customized for your pre-clinical and clinical programs. These offerings are all centered around our proven and validated BIOiSIMTM platform for small molecules, large molecules, and viruses. Our models are built on data from thousands of compounds across 7 species, leading to robustness rarely seen in the industry. With a focus on human outcomes, the platform has at its core a translatability engine that transforms insights across species. The BIOiSIMTM platform can be used before the preclinical animal trial start, allowing earlier insights and savings in expensive outsourced experimentation. -
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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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Recursion
Recursion
Recursion is a TechBio company focused on transforming drug discovery by combining biology, data, and artificial intelligence. Founded over a decade ago, the company pioneered the use of large-scale cellular imaging to train AI models that decode the biological drivers of disease. Recursion’s mission is to deliver better medicines through novel insights and precision design, reducing the high failure rates of traditional drug development. Its proprietary Recursion OS platform integrates massive biological datasets with machine learning to accelerate discovery from target identification to clinical development. The company has built an advanced pipeline of potential first-in-class and best-in-class therapies targeting aggressive cancers and rare diseases. Automated wet labs and robotics enable millions of experiments per week, feeding continuous learning into its AI models. -
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AlphaFold
DeepMind
These exquisite, intricate machines are proteins. They underpin not just the biological processes in your body but every biological process in every living thing. They’re the building blocks of life. Currently, there are around 100 million known distinct proteins, with many more found every year. Each one has a unique 3D shape that determines how it works and what it does. But figuring out the exact structure of a protein remains an expensive and often time-consuming process, meaning we only know the exact 3D structure of a tiny fraction of the proteins known to science. Finding a way to close this rapidly expanding gap and predict the structure of millions of unknown proteins could not only help us tackle disease and more quickly find new medicines but perhaps also unlock the mysteries of how life itself works. -
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Kaleido
Kaleido
The microbiome is implicated in numerous diseases and health conditions. Learn how Kaleido is leading a differentiated approach to translating the promise of the microbiome into solutions for patients. The human microbiome is a community of more than 30 trillion microbes, organisms that include bacteria, viruses, archaea and fungi, which reside on and inside the human body. Over the last decade, research has increased exponentially on the impact the microbiome has on human health, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, Parkinson’s disease and allergies. This highly complex microbial ecosystem has been referred to as a “newly discovered organ.” Many other human organs command tens of billions of dollars for therapeutics that treat disease by modulating physiology. From a therapeutic perspective, the microbiome organ remains a largely untapped frontier in healthcare. -
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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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Mass Dynamics
Mass Dynamics
Discover biological biomarkers, create insights into disease mechanisms, discover new drugs or identify changes in protein levels from a set of carefully designed experiments. We’ve made it easy to start unlocking the power of MS and Proteomics so you can focus on the biological complexity and move closer to the moment of discovery. Our automated and repeatable workflow allows for quicker experiment startup and turnaround times, giving you the control and flexibility to make and act on decisions in the moment. Allowing you to focus on biological insights and human-to-human collaboration, our proteomics data processing workflow is built to scale, repeatedly. We’ve pushed heavy and repetitive processing to the cloud, enabling a seamless and enjoyable experience. Our intelligent Proteomics workflow seamlessly integrates complex moving parts to enable larger experiments to be processed and analyzed with ease. -
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NoviSight 3D
Olympus
NoviSight 3D cell analysis software advances your discovery by providing statistical data for spheroids and other 3D objects in microplate-based experiments. The software enables you to quantify cell activity in three dimensions and more easily capture rare cell events, obtain accurate cell counts, and improve detection sensitivity. With a convenient user interface, NoviSight software offers the tools you need for recognition, analysis, and statistics. NoviSight software’s True 3D technology makes it easier to check the morphology of your samples. Measure a range of spheroid or cell nuclei parameters, including volume and sphericity, and measure and analyze physiologically relevant 3D cell models to speed up your research work. The software can analyze objects of interest to provide morphology and spatiotemporal parameters in 3D space. Detect objects from whole structures to subcellular features and evaluate changes in spheroids. -
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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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SpliceCore
Envisagenics
Using RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data and Artificial Intelligence are both a necessity and an opportunity to develop therapeutics that target splicing errors. The use of machine learning enables us to discover new splicing errors and quickly design therapeutic compounds to correct them. SpliceCore is our dedicated AI platform for RNA therapeutics discovery. We developed this technology platform specifically for the analysis of RNA sequencing data. It can identify, test and validate hypothetical drug targets faster than traditional methods. At the heart of SpliceCore is our proprietary database of more than 5 million potential RNA splicing errors. It is the largest database of splicing errors in the world and it is used to test every RNA sequencing dataset that is input for analysis. Scalable cloud computing enables us to process massive amounts of RNA sequencing data efficiently, at higher speed and lower cost, exponentially accelerating therapeutic innovation. -
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ChemDraw
PerkinElmer
Since 1985 ChemDraw® solutions have provided powerful capabilities and integrations to help you quickly turn ideas and drawings into publications you can be proud of. A chemistry communication suite, ChemOffice+ Cloud transforms your chemical drawings into chemical knowledge by facilitating the management, reporting and presenting of your Chemistry research. ChemOffice+ Cloud, is a robust, comprehensive suite, purpose-built to simplify, facilitate, and accelerate chemistry communication. The cloud-native chemistry communication suite builds on the foundations of ChemDraw Professional and adds access to a powerful set of tools to enable scientific research. The mundane task of creating reports to communicate chemical research has become much more efficient with ChemOffice+ Cloud. With powerful capabilities to search, reuse, select, and organize chemical structures and data, chemists can use ChemOffice+ Cloud to create presentation-ready PowerPoint slides and manuscripts. -
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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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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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Iktos
Iktos
Makya is the first user-friendly SaaS platform for AI-driven de novo drug design focused on Multi-Parametric Optimization (MPO). It enables the design of novel and easy-to-make compounds in line with a multi-objective blueprint with unprecedented speed, performance, and diversity. Makya offers multiple generative algorithms covering different use cases from hit discovery to lead optimization: fine-tuning generator to find optimal solutions within your chemical space in line with your project blueprint; novelty generator to find new ideas with high novelty for re-scaffolding/hit discovery; forward generator to design a focused library of compounds easily accessible from commercial starting materials. The new Makya 3D module enhances the user experience and scientific utility of Makya. With an extensive set of 3D modeling features in both ligand-based and structure-based pipelines, with Makya 3D you can now calculate 3D scores and use these to guide generations natively in Makya. -
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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.
