EUROPIN Summer School on Drug Design – Vienna
September 14 – 19, 2025
Workshops
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BioSolveIT
Interactive, Visual Ligand Design with SeeSAR — A free, hands-on workshop by BioSolveIT
BioSolveIT cordially invites you to a workshop for novices in ligand design. In this "click-along" workshop, you will not only learn about interactive, visually informed ligand design, but you’ll conduct all this yourselves: Assess a protein-ligand complex with respect to “trustability” and generate Medicinal Chemistry SAR hypotheses. Dock and score molecules easily and develop your critical view on what is computed. If time permits, we will embark into the field of fragment-based ligand design (FBLD), using linking/merging, growing, and superfast rescaffolding strategies.
As the icing on the cake, we shall briefly touch the idea of navigating extremely big Chemical Spaces (trillions and beyond) — on a laptop.
All this shall be accomplished in a very playful manner using BioSolveIT's flagship design suites SeeSAR and infiniSee.
Inte:Ligand
LigandScout: Advanced Workflows for Molecular Design and Discovery
LigandScout is the most user-friendly, advanced design platform available for 3D-pharmacophore modeling and virtual screening. It seamlessly integrates our advanced pharmacophore and virtual screening (VS) technologies with molecular docking, dynamics, apo site and activity profiling tools to create an inspiring and productive experience. By providing excellent prediction quality with unprecedented speed, LigandScout successfully addresses challenges in early stage drug discovery.
Workshop 1: Structure- and ligand-based modeling of kinase targets for cancer using LigandScout
Workshop 2: Molecular dynamics simulations analysis and targeting protein-protein interfaces for cancer using LigandScout
KNIME Analytics Platform
Workshop presented by Daniela Digles - Certified KNIME Trainer
The KNIME Analytics Platform is an open source workflow tool that can be used to automatize data analysis tasks. It provides a visual interface which allows the intuitive generation of workflows without programming.
Workshop 1: KNIME basics
Target audience: participants are either new to KNIME or have previous knowledge but are hesitant to change to the modern user interface. The workshop will give a general introduction to the KNIME Analytics Platform and will show how to read, modify, analyze, and visualize data.
Workshop 2: KNIME for drug discovery
Target audience: participants are already familiar with KNIME (e.g., by attending the KNIME basics workshop), but want to learn more about nodes and workflows relevant to drug discovery.
Contact us
If you have any questions regarding the EUROPIN Summer School on Drug Design, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
EUROPIN – a structured, highly interconnected training through research PhD program on the efficient and innovative use of information technologies and computational approaches in the drug discovery, design and development processes.
Organised by
Pharmacoinformatics Research Group
Following a holistic pharmacoinformatic approach we combine structural modeling of proteins, structure-based drug design, chemometric and in silico chemogenomic methods, statistical modeling and machine learning approaches to develop predictive computational systems for transporters and ion channels.
The validation and optimisation of the obtained in silico models by strong links to experimental groups is an integral part of these activities.