We are pleased to announce the release of PyRx 0.9.9. This is the first release since COVID-19 pandemic. This pandemic showed how important open science is for fighting emerging diseases. Since the earlier days PyRx has been actively used to find treatment for COVID-19 and there has been numerous publications using PyRx to find potential drug candidates against COVID-19. Our free version passed 113k downloads worldwide. A screenshot below shows geographic distribution of these downloads with darker green counties having the most downloads (India, United States and China are in the top 3).

Here are the main changes for PyRx 0.9.9 release:

• In Analyze Results tab for AutoDock and Vina Wizard you can now delete multiple selected entries at once using Delete icon on the upper right corner. You can also save multiple selected entries as SDF file with right mouse click. Thanks to Prof. Cheol-Min Park for requesting this feature.

• In Open Babel widget, you can now open multiple molecules at once.
• Fixed slow exit on Windows.
• Removed Remote (Opal Web Services) execution mode since NBCR and its associated websites/services have been retired as of April 30, 2020.

The list of changes for all previous PyRx releases is available on our Blog. Check out also our Facebook page where we post latest video tutorials and links to PyRx related publications.