Endonuclease PvuII (1PVI) DNA - GATTACAGATTACA
CAP - Catabolite gene Activating Protein (1BER)
DNA - GATTACAGATTACAGATTACA Endonuclease PvuII bound to palindromic DNA recognition site CAGCTG (1PVI) DNA - GATTACAGATTACAGATTACA TBP - TATA box  Binding Protein (1C9B)
CAP - Catabolite gene Activating Protein (1BER)
GCN4 - leucine zipper transcription factor bound to palindromic DNA recognition site ATGAC(G)TCAT (1YSA)
GCN4 - leucine zipper transcription factor bound to palindromic DNA recognition site ATGAC(G)TCAT (1YSA)
GCN4 - leucine zipper transcription factor bound to palindromic DNA recognition site ATGAC(G)TCAT (1YSA)
GCN4 - leucine zipper transcription factor bound to palindromic DNA recognition site ATGAC(G)TCAT (1YSA)
GCN4 - leucine zipper transcription factor bound to palindromic DNA recognition site ATGAC(G)TCAT (1YSA)
GCN4 - leucine zipper transcription factor bound to palindromic DNA recognition site ATGAC(G)TCAT (1YSA)
TBP - TATA box  Binding Protein (1C9B)
 

YASARA Development News

NOTE that this page is only updated sporadically. Better click here to access the detailed list of new features, which are released on a weekly basis.


September 2023 YASARA has been ported to ARM 64bit CPUs with Neon SIMD instruction set. The first supported operating system is MacOS, where the CPU-only DHFR molecular dynamics benchmark running on an Apple MacBook Air from 2020 with 4 performance and 4 efficiency cores jumps from 75 ns/day (using Rosetta-2 emulation) to 125 ns/day (using the new native ARM Neon code).
April 2023 Virtual reality is here on Linux and Windows PCs, allowing a seamless switch between a comfortable seated and an exciting standing environment. Watch the introductory movie here.
August 2022 YASARA displays electron densities and other maps in six different styles.
February 2022 The PetWorld database, a collection of gigastructures for interactive exploration has been released at www.PetWorld.vision. Contribute your own models and get all YASARA stages free of charge.
January 2022 YASARA can build entire genomes (single- and double-stranded DNA or RNA), taking as input the FASTA sequence and a collection of nucleic acid binding proteins. Proteins are attached automatically to their binding sites.
December 2021 The new facilities for building gigastructures have been used to construct a SARS-CoV-2 model which can be explored interactively.
November 2021 YASARA can shrink molecules to a coarse-grained representation made of "pet atoms".This reduces the atom count by about a factor of 50 and speeds up construction and MD simulations of giant systems.
October 2021 A new packing engine to build gigastructures with billions of atoms is available. Compartments can be defined with polygon meshes and filled with proteins inside, outside and on the boundary (in this case usually including membrane fragments). The packing can be done using pet atoms (see above) to complete the task quickly.
August 2021 YASARA includes the OpenH264 MPEG4 encoder to save high quality movies with high compression.
June 2021 YASARA's Vulkan graphics engine has been improved to calculate per-pixel ambient lighting, yielding a better 3D appearance.
December 2020 YASARA enters the billion atom world. Identical copies of object (instances) can be created for visualization, while the number of atoms in the soup remains unchanged. The new Vulkan/Metal graphics engine can display these instances so quickly that interactive visualization of systems with billions of atoms in all common styles from balls and sticks to ribbons is now possible.
October 2020 YASARA calculates and shows contact surfaces, the help movie 'Surfaces II' has been updated to include the new, easier approach
July 2020 After nearly 30 years of service, OpenGL has reached the end of its lifetime as the top API for cross-platform 3D graphics. Its successor is called Vulkan and delivers more performance, control and flexibility. The YASARA graphics engine has been rewritten from scratch for Vulkan and now delivers in real-time what you previously only got from POVRay via slow ray-tracing (e.g. contact hardening soft shadows for improved depth perception). In MacOS, YASARA now uses the Metal API, since OpenGL is deprecated there.
April 2019 The much faster OpenGL graphics engine that made the Android Virtual Reality Workstation possible is now available for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Especially the display of balls, ball&sticks and sticks now runs 2-3× as fast as previously.
January 2019 YASARA supports docking of covalently bound ligands using AutoDock's flexible side-chain approach.
November 2018 A completely revamped YASARA for MacOS is out: 64bit, support for Retina displays, touch gestures on the MacBook trackpad, faster MD simulations.
July 2018 An extensively tested 3D cinema setup is available for Linux and Windows 1200 EUR: The Optoma UHD40 beamer, that delivers 3D for DLP-link glasses with 1920×1080 pixels, and 4K (3840*2160 pixels) in 2D.
April 2018 The YASARA Virtual Reality Workstation is on sale for 175 EUR. You can now do interactive modeling and simulation in 3D with head-tracking and without cables anywhere on the planet.
February 2018 YASARA supports the NMR Exchange Format (NEF) for reading and writing restraints.
December 2017 YASARA can automatically write scientific reports including tables, plots and figures, for example about molecular dynamics simulations.
August 2017 The YARIA module developed by Chris Spronk links ARIA and YASARA to fully automatically determine NMR structures from their spectra.
June 2017 An interactive small molecule builder is available, watch the movie here.
April 2017 YASARA's force fields have been updated. Small molecules are simulated with the new GAFF2 force field, the new AMBER15IPQ force field is available, AMBER14 includes the OL15 DNA fine-tuning, LIPID14 includes cholesterol. Contributed by AMBERTools16.
February 2017
YASARA's graphics engine and user interface have been reimplemented for high and ultra-high resolution displays, now supporting video walls with up to 7680×4320 pixels.
December 2016
MD simulations run 10-20% faster thanks to support for dodecahedral simulation cells, which reduce the number of unnecessarily simulated water molecules by about 50%.
November 2016
YASARA's NMR module supports residual dipolar couplings (RDCs).
September 2016
Batch-processing of large data sets is now possible from the GUI, without having to write a macro to loop over the data.
August 2016
The Bio-Prodict 3DM protein superfamily data integration platform has become a widely used, indispensable tool for protein analysis and now includes DNA diagnostics
June 2016
A 64-bit version of YASARA for Windows is available
April 2016
The YASARA Structure/WHAT IF Twinset is available for Windows 64-bit
February 2016
Several new force fields are available: AMBER10, AMBER11 (known as ff99sb*-ILDN), AMBER12, AMBER14 and AMBER14IPQ. Included are GLYCAM06 for carbohydrates, Lipid14 for phospholipids and lots of new ion parameters by Li&Merz.
October 2015
A 64-bit version of YASARA for Linux is available, so that you don't need to install extra libraries for backwards compatibility, and memory limits will no longer impair your MD simulation of the ribosome.
August 2015
To prepare for the coming replacement of classic PDB files with the new PDBx files, YASARA includes a fast and reliable interface to mmCIF/PDBx and CIF files, allowing to load the new giant structures like 4V8P that are only available in mmCIF format
June 2015
YASARA allows to create alternative views of the scene, each with its own styles, visibilites, surfaces, arrows etc. Tabs at the top allow to quickly change between the views.
May 2015
YASARA's internal data structures were redesigned, many operations run significantly faster. YASARA supports 4-character chain/molecule names (as required by the new PDBx/mmCIF format) and up to 7 covalent bonds per atom. The *.sce and *.yob file formats require less space on disk
March 2015
YASARA supports GPUs from AMD, nVIDIA and Intel to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations, boosting the DHFR benchmark to 253 ns/day (Core i7-5960X with Geforce GTX 980, PME, 8.0 A VdW cutoff, correct atom masses, reproducible trajectory, CPU with 3.6 GHz, no turbo boost, 8 AVX registers).
December 2014
Thanks to another round of algorithmic improvements, the DHFR benchmark now runs with 160 ns/day on a Core i7-5960X (no GPU, PME, 8.0 A VdW cutoff, correct atom masses, reproducible trajectory, CPU with 3.6 GHz, no turbo boost, 8 AVX registers).
May 2014
YASARA's MD algorithms have been largely rewritten to boost performance. On an Intel Core i7 4770, this YASARA now reaches 81ns/day in the DHFR benchmark, which is almost 3× as fast as previous YASARA versions.
March 2014
YASARA supports pair lists, which can be updated every Nth step. With N=10, simulations run 74% faster.
January 2014
YASARA supports the AVX2 vector instruction set, introduced with the Intel Haswell CPU architecture in summer 2013.
November 2013
YASARA features a new mixed multiple timestep algorithm, which allows to reach a 5 fs timestep during MD simulations.
October 2013
YASARA supports the FMA3 vector instruction set for 'fused multiply add operations', introduced with the AMD Piledriver CPU architecture in summer 2012.
September 2013
YASARA supports the AVX vector instruction set, introduced with the Intel Sandy Bridge CPU architecture in spring 2011 and AMD Bulldozer CPU architecture in autumn 2011.
June 2013
YASARA's graphics engine receives a major update to make optimal use of new OpenGL functionality and multiple CPU cores. Drawing runs 300-450% faster, depending on CPU and GPU type.
April 2013
The first 'YASARA tablets' are shipped to our customers. Molecular modeling and simulations at your fingertips for 199 EUR.
March 2013
YASARA for Android is released, providing today's most feature complete molecular modeling software on smartphones and tablets, including interactive MD simulations.
February 2013
A touchable YASARA is released, which supports multi-touch gestures and provides a customized on-screen keyboard. The first supported devices are Windows 8 tablets.
January 2013
AutoDock VINA has been seamlessly integrated into YASARA, allowing to dock with just four mouse clicks, many thanks to Scripps Research Institute.
December 2012
YASARA's docking module allows to keep selected side-chains flexible during docking, in addition to the previous approach of docking against a receptor ensemble with alternative high-scoring side-chain rotamers.
November 2012
YASARA's homology modeling module includes a new hybridization algorithm to combine the best parts of models built from different templates and/or with different alignments.
September 2012
YASARA's homology modeling module features a new database of 'P'rofiles from 'S'equence and 'S'tructurally related 'P'roteins (PSSP), which provides precalculated profiles for each template in the PDB, resulting in more accurate alignments.
August 2012
YASARA includes modeling functions to transfer and replicate structure fragments, e.g. loops or entire domains.
July 2012
YASARA includes functionality to analyze and visualize hydrophobic, pi-pi and cation-pi interactions, also as part of the ligand explorer.
June 2012
YASARA performs 'twisted structural alignments', i.e. it bends and winds proteins to maximize the number of structurally aligned residues, for example to create sequence profiles for homology modeling.
April 2012
YASARA can extrude 3D objects from simple 2D bitmaps, which makes it easy to create 3D animations without having to build 3D objects first.
February 2012
The new functions 'Inflate' and 'Deflate' generate 3D molecule coordinates from nonsense,1D or 2D coordinates, and convert them back to a flat 2D structure, which can be styled like a structural formula.
January 2012
YASARA includes a much faster and more accurate relaunch of the NOVA force field for proteiN Optimization in VAcuo with automatic force field parameter assignment for organic molecules.
December 2011
YASARA's built-in BLAST supports two new databases: UniRef90 and PDBC, the PDB protein sequences extracted from the coordinate section, which is more useful than the usual SEQRES data. Redundant sequences are sorted by structure quality.
October 2011
YASARA macros, plugins and scripts can freely define user interfaces to create their own custom windows whenever needed. Now every user can easily add custom functionality to YASARA.
May 2011
YASARA can create user interfaces in secondary windows, for example on a touch screen. This makes it easy for the unexperienced audience at expositions etc. to get in touch with molecular modeling, as shown in this YouTube movie.
April 2011
The DCCM (dynamic cross-correlation matrix) can be calculated from MD simulations and visualized.
March 2011
A new structural alignment algorithm matches ligands by indentifying common structural motifs.
Feburary 2011
YASARA features GPU accelerated high-quality anaglyph stereo mode that tricks the human brain into seeing full color and enables stereo everywhere, also on notebooks. Every order is now shipped with red/cyan glasses.
January 2011
The homology modeling experiment creates better alignments using sequence profiles, that can optionally be augmented with structure- based profiles of related template structures.
December 2010
YASARA supports spherical sky projections that are mirrored in protein secondary structure etc.
November 2010
YASARA includes a new selection mechanism, that permits to interactively select atoms within a rectangular box, an arbitrary area or a 3D sphere.
October 2010
A secondary structure morpher has been developed, which allows to seamlessly interpolate between realistic (close to Calphas) and idealistic (perfectly straight strands and helices) secondary structure.
September 2010
YASARA Biosciences purchased a license of David Jones' PsiPred program, which now provides more accurate secondary structure prediction, for example during homology modeling.
August 2010
YASARA's graphics engine makes full use of the ever increasing GPU power by providing phong shading (OpenGL 2.X) and hardware tessellation  (OpenGL 3.X), where the GPU increases the geometric details of the polygon meshes. Contributed by Jacobus van Meel.
July 2010
Docking with receptor flexibility is supported by creating an ensemble of receptor structures with alternative high-scoring solutions of the side-chain rotamer network.
June 2010
The secondary structure display has been improved heavily, lots of new options permit to configure every aspect (e.g. rectangular, elliptical or barbell-like helix-ribbon cross-sections).
May 2010
A stochastic rotamer optimizer generates alternative high scoring side-chain packings to capture conformational freedom.
April 2010
Dynamically updated or static & plastic wire frames can be displayed for all kinds of polygon meshes like surfaces.
March 2010
Full-scene antialiasing is available to avoid jagged polygon edges, contributed by Jacobus van Meel.
February 2010
YASARA includes an interface to the FoldX program for free energy calculations, contributed by Joost van Durme.
December 2009
YASARA provides identification, analysis and visualization of internal cavities.
October 2009
YASARA can constrain bond lengths using the LINCS algorithm to enable larger timesteps. Combined with the new MD algorithms simulations now run between 4.1× (1 CPU core) and 5.2× (8 CPU cores) as fast as previously.
September 2009
YASARA's molecular dynamics algorithms have been rewritten and are now the fastest around. For a typical protein simulation in explicit solvent, they run between 3.2× (1 CPU core) and 4.3× (8 CPU cores) as fast as previously, and require significantly less memory.
August 2009
YASARA runs simulations of membrane proteins fully automatically, at the touch of a button. This includes identification of the transmembrane region, embedding and equilibration.
June 2009
YASARA supports interlaced stereo for a new generation of screens like the Zalman ZM-M220W, allowing to build a molecular modeling cave for just 250 EUR.
March 2009
YASARA includes a customized version of APBS to solve the Poisson-Boltzmann equation, adding an additional method to calculate electrostatic potentials and solvation energies.
February 2009
Several new graphics styles to visualize electrostatic potentials are available.
January 2009
YASARA supports multiple interactive cut-planes to look inside surfaces and other objects.
December 2008
YASARA's new force fields deliver the most accurate MD simulations and win five CASP8 targets.
November 2008
YASARA's built-in Yanaconda macro language runs up to 150× faster and features vector processing.
October 2008
An interactive oligosaccharide builder with stepwise energy-minimization has been released.
August 2008
After five years of development, the final YASARA stage 'YASARA Structure' has just been released with YASARA version 8.8.8. You are welcome to join the festive activities by clicking Help > Play help movie > Triple 8 celebration day.
August 2008
Two new force fields are available: The YASARA force field, which has been derived from YAMBER3 by adding knowledge-based dihedral potentials (one-, two- and three-dimensional), and the YASARA2 force field, which contains additional knowledge based 1D and 3D packing potentials.
August 2008
YASARA performs a new kind of force field based structure validation that works also for ligands, supporting 11 different checks.
August 2008
The NMR module to perform NMR structure determination has been released.
August 2008
A built-in (PSI-)BLAST is available, local sequence databases (PDB,SwissProt,TrEMBL) are updated automatically and augmented with additional validation data to identify the best PDB structure for a given sequence.
August 2008
YASARA optimizes Side-Chains With a Rotamer Library and very fast dead-end elimination using the SCWRL3 algorithm. Additional tuning considers electrostatic and packing interaction, as well as solvation effects.
July 2008
The 'Docking experiment' performs small molecule docking using a tuned version of AutoDock.
June 2008
YASARA contains a new pH dependent hydrogen bonding network optimizer that fully considers ligands.
May 2008
The 'HomologyModeling experiment' takes all the steps from a target FASTA sequence to a fully refined homology model and writes a scientific report about the modeling
April 2008
YASARA contains a knowledge-based loop modeler and optimizer.
March 2008
YASARA performs secondary structure prediction.
February 2008
YASARA supports side-by-side stereo for flat-screens that do not work with shutter glasses.
January 2008
A scene content browser with context menus in the top right head-up display allows to easily and quickly navigate and modify the scene.
November 2007
YASARA has a new Python interface: stand-alone Python scripts can simply import the new YASARA Python module and directly use all YASARA functions.
October 2007
YASARA supports multiple structural alignments using Arun Konagurthu's MUSTANG program, which has been fully incorporated.
September 2007
YASARA performs local Smith&Waterman and global Needleman&Wunsch sequence alignments and can use them to superpose structures.
July 2007
Douglas Theobald contributes the THESEUS maximum likelihood algorithm to superpose bundles of NMR structures fully automatically, putting more emphasis on the structurally conserved regions.
May 2007
YASARA features a new multi-threaded high-speed algorithm to draw molecular surfaces. Just like Van der Waals and solvent accessible surfaces, they now adapt in real-time to moving atoms.
March 2007
YASARA is now available for MacOS, including special support for Mighty Mouse and MacBook track pad.
February 2007
YASARA's OpenGL graphics engine supports real-time shadows and ambient lighting, even on old notebooks that do not have pixel/vertex shaders (OpenGL 1.2).
January 2007
YASARA gets a newly styled look that also adapts to your current operating system.
December 2006
YASARA now supports parallel molecular dynamics simulations on multiple CPUs.
September 2006
The new YAMBER3 force field is available, providing more accurate molecular dynamics simulations.
June 2006
YASARA can calculate force field energies individually per unit (atom, residue, molecule, object) to locate regions of interest.
March 2006
YASARA uses eigenvector analysis to calculate angles and dihedrals between groups of atoms like helices or planar side-chains.
January 2006
The AutoSMILES algorithm provides fully automatic force field parameter assignment for organic molecules, e.g. unusual amino acids or ligands. 98% of the PDB can now be simulated at the touch of a button.
November 2005
A new algorithm combining graph theory with chemical knowledge on valence ambiguities and preferred tautomers improves typing of hetero-polycycles, and makes it straightforward to handle complex ligands in PDB files. 
October 2005
Structure based alignments are now available in Windows and Linux using the methods CE, Multiprot and Sheba thanks to a web server plugin developed by Emmanuel Bettler and Mikael Roche at IBCP Lyon/France.
September 2005
Molecular graphics can be augmented with all kinds of solid objects: spheres, ellipsoids, cubes, boxes, cylinders, cones, prisms and pyramids.
August 2005
YASARA now includes a SMILES based library of chemical knowledge about pH dependent bond orders and protonation patterns, making it possible to type bonds and add missing hydrogens to any organic molecule at any pH from 0 to 14.
July 2005
YASARA imports OpenOffice Impress and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and makes it easy to add molecular animations.
May 2005
YASARA calculates Van der Waals, molecular and solvent accessible volumes
April 2005
The YASARA/WHATIF Twinset adds structural alignments, a hydrogen bonding network optimizer, a regularizer for covalent geometry and the option to analyze backbone dependent rotamer distributions.
February 2005
The YASARA/WHATIF Twinset is released. YASARA can now perform 20+ different WHAT_CHECKs: bonds, angles, torsions, omega angle, Ramachandran plot, side-chain rotamers, proline rings, chirality, planarity, backbone conformation, peptide-plane flips, bumps, 3D packing quality, inside-outside distribution, unsatisfied H-bonds, or flipped Asn/Gln/His side-chains.
January 2005
YASARA encodes MPEG movies from normal or ray-traced screenshots. Can be pasted into PowerPoint etc.
December 2004
A fast implicit solvent model using a first order boundary element approach allows to calculate solvation energies.
November 2004
A flexible implementation of multi-dimensional tables including visualization makes all kinds of data analysis very easy.
October 2004
Heavily improved surface analysis becomes available. The 'FirstSurf' command allows to subdivide surfaces, the new operators 'with distance from surface' and 'with contribution to surface' enable surface-based selections.
September 2004 A summary of the science behind YASARA is available in movie format. (PhD thesis defence, 27th of September, Radboud University).
August 2004
Structural alignments are handled by SHEBA via a Python plugin (Linux). New facilities for building small molecules have been added.
July 2004
A 'neutralizing plasma' allows to run Particle Mesh Ewald simulations also with non-neutral simulation cells. Simulation algorithms and energy calculations have been improved and run a bit faster now.
June 2004
The Spaceball 3D controller is now supported in Linux.
May 2004
YASARA shows all kinds of surfaces, with transparency and updated in real-time. Now you can see the surface adapt while you change torsion angles or run molecular dynamics simulations. Surface environments permit to display and calculate partial surfaces. An interface to the MSMS program allows to display analytic molecular surfaces.
April 2004
YASARA calculates VdW, molecular and solvent accessible surface areas.
March 2004
A plugin for Bert de Groot's CONCOORD program allows to quickly analyze protein flexibility.
February 2004
YASARA's macro language 'Yanaconda' gets an extreme makeover, with lots of new functions, better list handling and huge speedups.
November 2003
Adding chemical modifications to small molecules is much easier now.
October 2003
YASARA displays structural alignments and allows to change distances, angles and dihedrals interactively.
September 2003 YASARA is officially launched at the ICMSB 2003. Download your personal edition now!
August 2003 The YASARA PDBFINDER II plugin allows you to quickly locate conserved residues and identify the well determined regions in every PDB structure.
July 2003 WHAT IF and YASARA work together in the Twinset
June 2003 YASARA mail orders are now handled by a robotic system.
May 2003 YASARA online shop, automatic order processing.
April 2003 YASARA documentation system. Every change in the program is now reflected automatically in the documentation.
March 2003 You can now write YASARA plugins in Python to add your own functions.
February 2003 Our mascott Yami is born (2003/02/02). First YASARA tutorial written in Yanaconda: Working with Yasara.
January 2003 YASARA displays hydrogen bonds. Internal YASARA beta testing starts at the CMBI.
December 2002 YASARA gets a fully functional macro language - Yanaconda (Yet ANother Abridged COding'N'Development Approach).
November 2002 Added support for labels and arrows.
October 2002 YASARA can display molecules as balls'n'sticks and now also in true OpenGL quad-buffered stereo.
September 2002 YASARA, WHAT IF and SeqCF-Threader submit predictions for over 40 CASP5 targets. The model for target 168 is ranked first among ~150 submissions.
August 2002 Thanks to Models@Home , the new YAMBER force fields are ready, just in time for CASP5.
July 2002 A Python-based expert system for protein structure prediction, to become part of the WHAT IF/YASARA Twinset.
June 2002 A knowledge-based loop modeler, and a new scoring function for CASP5.
May 2002 YASARA gets an OpenGL based window manager and access to many different file formats thanks to OpenBabel.
April 2002 A new module to predict pKa values, also in protein crystals.
March 2002 YASARA can display three dimensional fonts with depth.
Unlimited undo/redo now available.
February 2002 YASARA can display molecules as sticks.
January 2002 YASARA's PVL based Particle Mesh Ewald module finally completed.
December 2001 Development of an object-oriented modeling environment in Python. Will become a plugin for the WHAT IF/YASARA Twinset.
November 2001 Development of a Particle Mesh Ewald (PME) module to calculate long-range electrostatic interactions starts.
October 2001 PVL based molecular dynamics algorithms enable periodic boundaries, triclinic simulation cells and faster neighbour searches.
September 2001 New very Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithms using PVL.
August 2001 Multimedia presentation capabilities using OpenGL texture mapping.
July 2001 New algorithm to display molecules in space-filling mode with OpenGL and PVL, 35× faster than the usual approach.
June 2001 First molecule displayed on screen using OpenGL.
May 2001 YASARA for Linux and Windows gets basic OpenGL support.
April 2001 PVL, the Portable Vector Language, is ready and provides a huge performance boost for YASARA.
March 2001 Using Models@Home , YASARA performs large scale docking of glycosaminoglycans and proteins. See Proteins (2003) in press. 
February 2001 Using Models@Home, NOVA becomes the first 'self-parameterizing' force field. See Proteins (2002) 47,393-402.
January 2001 A new, faster implementation of the AMBER force field.
First version of YASARA for Windows, console without graphics only.
December 2000 Models@Home, a screen saver to turn idle PCs into a distributed computing cluster is ready and runs YASARA in parallel. See Bioinformatics (2002) 18 , 315-318
November 2000 www.YASARA.com goes online. The last version of YASARA for DOS is ready.
August 2000 A "Transgenic Algorithm" combined with a WHAT IF/ WHAT_CHECK/ GenThreader/ 3DPSSM/ Bioinbgu interface is applied to 8 CASP4 targets (5x homology modeling, 1× fold recognition, 2× ab initio, 5 have been submitted).
July 2000 The currently 26 PCs at the CMBI now form a distributed computing cluster, YASARA gets a parallel job scheduler.
June 2000 YASARA for Linux finally runs in console-mode, graphics are on their way.
March 2000 YASARA development moves to the Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI) in Nijmegen/Netherlands.
December 1999 A new graphical user interface allows intuitive access to all functions.
December 1998 Other force fields like AMBER can be imported.
October 1998 YASARA becomes parallel using the Molecular Dynamics Network Protocol MODYNP.
September 1998 Photorealistic molecule images can be created thanks to a POVRay interface.
June 1998 Potentials of mean force have been added to allow true fold prediction.
April 1998 The "Virtual Ribosome" to fold proteins based on NMR NOE restraints is ready.
January 1998 Protein/DNA docking module.
November 1997 YASARA NOVA Force Field with off-center point charges ready, first interactive real-time simulation on screen of a Pentium 133 (32 MB RAM): 1ACP, 768 atoms, space filling, quad-buffered stereo, 12 frames per second.
August 1997 The molecule rendering engine triples its speed thanks to the 1st generation YAMAC (YASARA Molecule Accelerator, a directly programmed Tseng ET6000 graphics board).
May 1997 YASARA reads PDB files.
October 1996 Support for a Virtual Reality Headset including motion-tracking.
September 1996 Development of the space-fill molecule rendering engine starts.
July 1996 YASARA gets support for 3D shutter glasses.
Autumn 1993 After some early "molecular graphics" attempts on a 1MIPS machine, the first line of YASARA source code is written on an Intel 386SX/20MHz, 2MB RAM, MS-DOS.