Software: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 (1993-11)
Stable release	21.8.26 / 26 August 2021 (2021-08-26)
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

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. The free version of YASARA 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.

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

• "Increasing the precision of comparative models with YASARA NOVA—a self-parameterizing force field". Proteins 47 (3): 393–402. May 2002. doi:10.1002/prot.10104. PMID 11948792. 
• Modelling:
  "Models@Home: distributed computing in bioinformatics using a screensaver based approach". Bioinformatics 18 (2): 315–8. Feb 2002. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/18.2.315. PMID 11847079. http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=11847079. 
• Dynamics:
  "Making optimal use of empirical energy functions: force-field parameterization in crystal space". Proteins 57 (4): 678–83. Dec 2004. 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