You asked for it and we delivered: Protein modeling on macOS Last week we released a new version of our local Nova Applications for protein modeling. These tools have been available to run on the cloud using our NovaCloud Services or locally, on a Linux computer, for several years. Starting this month, you can also run our Nova […]

  If you’re a frequent visitor to our website or this blog, you’ll know we talk a lot about accuracy here. When it comes to your research, we understand that obtaining accurate and reliable results is paramount in deciding which software to use. So how accurate is our protein structure prediction program, NovaFold? And how […]

I recently spoke with Dr. Richard Buick, Chief Technical Officer of Fusion Antibodies to find out how his group uses NovaFold software as part of their antibody humanization service. Check out the interview below to learn more about antibody humanization, and what Fusion Antibodies customers have to say about the NovaFold structure prediction results! Want to […]

We are excited to announce our newest video series, DNASTAR LabViews, a collection of short interviews with DNASTAR users. Our first interview is with Dr. Xiao-Ning Zhang at St. Bonaventure University. Watch the video below to learn about Dr. Zhang’s RNA splicing research, and hear how her lab uses DNASTAR Lasergene for genomics, transcriptomics, and […]

Dr. Amanda Mitchell received her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Her thesis focus was on 3D structures of proteins from bacteria that modify sugars attached to antibiotics they produce. She joined DNASTAR in 2011 as a Quality Assurance Scientist, leading testing on Protean 3D and NovaFold. I recently sat down […]

Steve Darnell started his career as a structural biologist and computational biologist at the University of Wisconsin, developing computational models to predict binding hot spots in protein-protein interactions. In 2008 he joined DNASTAR and helped launch Protean 3D for protein sequence and structure analysis, and later NovaFold for protein structure prediction. I recently sat down […]

  When most people think about DNASTAR, they probably think of cloning and primer design in our Molecular Biology Suite or next-gen sequence assembly and analysis in our Genomics Suite. Indeed, much of our 30-year history as a company has been spent developing software in these domains. But some of our newest and most exciting […]

MADISON, Wisconsin – July 23, 2015 – DNASTAR announced the release of NovaFold 12.3 today, with significant enhancements to the world-leading NovaFold protein structure prediction software.  Based on I-TASSER, the software that has won the Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP) competition for the past 10 years, NovaFold 12.3 can be run internally or on […]

Protein structure prediction software programs seek to solve one of the more essential bioinformatics quandaries: how can we determine the three-dimensional structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence? Important for both medicine and biotechnology, the task of protein structure prediction remains a complex question. All protein structure prediction algorithms utilize one or more […]