FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Quantumzyme focuses on utilizing quantum mechanics, molecular modeling, and molecular dynamics simulation to gain insights into catalysis. Through computational expertise, Quantumzyme engineers enzymes to maximize their potential. Quantumzyme provides the most suitable enzyme from thousands of options for a given activity in a matter of weeks. Additionally, Quantumzyme can provide customized engineered enzymes that meet customer expectations within a couple of months, thus saving cost with reduced timeline. This is a significant improvement compared to traditional methods that rely on random mutagenesis, which can take over eight months to a year to achieve similar results.

Quantumzyme’s uniqueness lies in its advanced framework QZyme Workbench that offers advanced solutions for specific biocatalysis requirements. QZyme Workbench has been acknowledged by customers worldwide in creating designer enzymes that has achieved remarkable results at an industrial scale.

QZyme Workbench is a fully automated proprietary in silico protein engineering platform, evolved by integrating open-source computational chemistry and biology/bioinformatics tools in combination with customised algorithms and scripts. QZyme Workbench is capable of tackling several important aspects of protein modelling and engineering including, but not limited to, structural refinement, ligand docking, conformational sampling, estimating substrate binding affinity, modelling catalytic reaction, identifying mutable hotspots, further hotspot optimization.