YASARA

Yet Another Scientific Artificial Reality Application (YASARA) is a computer program for molecular visualising, modelling, and dynamics. It has many scientific uses, as expressed by the large number of scientific articles mentioning the software.^[1] The free version of YASARA^[2] is well suited to bioinformatics education. A series of freely available bioinformatics courses exist that use this software.

Students working on an educational task using YASARA.

Yet Another Scientific Artificial Reality Application
Original author(s)	Elmar Krieger Jacobus van Meel
Developer(s)	YASARA Biosciences WHAT IF Foundation Spronk NMR Consultancy
Initial release	November 1993; 31 years ago (1993-11)
Stable release	24.10.5 / 5 October 2024
Written in	C, assembly, Python
Operating system	Windows, Linux, OS X
Platform	x86
Available in	English
Type	Molecular modelling
License	Proprietary, free version for elementary structure work
Website	www.yasara.org

See the Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI) education pages for a series of examples.^[3]

• Krieger E, Koraimann G, Vriend G (May 2002). "Increasing the precision of comparative models with YASARA NOVA—a self-parameterizing force field". Proteins. 47 (3): 393–402. doi:10.1002/prot.10104. PMID 11948792.
• Modelling:
  Krieger E, Vriend G (Feb 2002). "Models@Home: distributed computing in bioinformatics using a screensaver based approach". Bioinformatics. 18 (2): 315–8. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/18.2.315. PMID 11847079.
• Dynamics:
  Krieger E, Darden T, Nabuurs SB, Finkelstein A, Vriend G (Dec 2004). "Making optimal use of empirical energy functions: force-field parameterization in crystal space". Proteins. 57 (4): 678–83. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.472.6529. doi:10.1002/prot.20251. PMID 15390263.

Learning to dock ligands with YASARA.

See also

• List of molecular graphics systems
• Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
• Molecular graphics
• Molecular design software