VeraChem LLC was founded in 2000 to advance the state of the art in computer-aided drug-discovery by creating software that is well-grounded in science and is outfitted with high quality graphical user interfaces designed by and for scientists. VeraChem's offices are located in Germantown, MD, in the heart of the I-270 Technology Corridor.

VeraChem software is constructed with reusable software modules that speed the creation of applications tailored for specific tasks in computational chemistry. In addition to routine functionalities for file I/O, data management, process control, etc., our proprietary toolkit provides a range of scientific modeling functions. These include ligand-protein docking and scoring, fast calculation of accurate partial atomic charges for drug-like compounds, computation of energies and forces with empirical force fields such as AMBER, GAFF, and DREIDING, automatic generation of alternate resonance forms of drug-like compounds, conformational search with the powerful Tork algorithm, and automatic detection of topological and 3D molecular symmetries.

VeraChem has devised a novel user-interface style for molecular modeling applications in which the task of interest is broken into steps and the user is guided from one step to the next. This shortens the learning curve and reduces the time spent studying tutorials and user manuals. At each step, a tailored user-interface brings forward just the controls that are needed for the current step, so the user does not need to search through multilevel menus to find them. The user is free to navigate back to previous steps to check and modify the setup until the calculation is complete, at which point the setup can no longer be changed, and results are stored along with the corresponding setup for future reference. This proprietary interface design dramatically simplifies the task and thus expands the potential user base of VeraChem products.