BIOVIA Scientific and Laboratory Informatics Software
For effective management and collaboration in science-driven industries focused on developing new materials and medicines.
What is BIOVIA?
BIOVIA is a comprehensive scientific and laboratory management software suite developed by Dassault Systèmes to support the creation and connection of biological, chemical, and material innovations in science-based organizations. It provides a suite of solutions that enable organizations to integrate the diversity of science, experimental processes, and information requirements across research and development, quality assurance, quality and compliance, and manufacturing.
BIOVIA’s solutions cover a wide range of applications, including laboratory informatics, molecular modeling and simulation, biological and chemical data management, data science using big data and AI/ML, formulation design, and more. By streamlining data management and facilitating collaboration, BIOVIA empowers scientists to accelerate innovation and drive scientific breakthroughs in regulated and unregulated environments.
Most popular uses for BIOVIA
Life sciences
Accelerate pharmaceutical R&D by identifying promising drug candidates, reducing physical experiments, and enabling seamless collaboration with real-time data and automated workflows. Streamline lab operations by automating workflows and managing instruments, samples, and inventory to ensure compliance and efficiency. BIOVIA drives better models and faster innovation by capturing structured data and encouraging collaboration. Automated quality management reduces incidents, ensures traceability in production, and simplifies regulatory compliance with structured document authoring.
"I like the product in terms of its ease of use, supporting both development and quality work."
Senior Scientist at NanoChem Solutions
Consumer packaged goods
Enhance product formulations for safer, more efficient goods like cosmetics or food packaging. Multiscale modeling and materials informatics provide deeper insights into material properties while reducing physical testing. Integrate lab informatics with design to improve formulations and streamline R&D. Automate quality management to ensure product safety and compliance, while traceability systems maintain transparency and adherence to regulations.
A leading company in the fragrance industry standardized its product development process, significantly reducing the product development cycle time by 20%.
High Tech
Support innovation by enabling advanced modeling and simulation for semiconductors, batteries, and lightweight composites in electronics. Materials informatics reduces physical testing while providing insights into material interactions. Standardize processes and share models to encourage collaboration, eliminate inefficiencies, and accelerate breakthroughs in hardware and software development.
Industrial equipment
Improve overall operational performance and ensure the delivery of high-quality equipment. Optimize quality control by automating workflows and ensuring data accuracy in lab operations. Unify the management of instruments, samples, and inventory, and streamline procedures while maintaining compliance.
Aerospace and defense
Support the creation of advanced materials that meet the rigorous demands of aerospace applications. Automate workflows and standardize processes to optimize designs for durability under extreme conditions. Capturing structured data enhances collaboration across teams, enabling better models and faster innovation.
Why use BIOVIA?
BIOVIA provides a range of benefits that enhance scientific research and development capabilities, streamline processes, and drive innovation.
Drive pharmaceutical research and development by quickly identifying the most promising drug candidates and targets. Minimize the need for physical experiments, reduce time spent, and enhance collaboration across teams with real-time data and automated workflows, ensuring the best candidates move swiftly to clinical trials.
Promote the development of next-generation materials through multiscale, multiphysics modeling and simulation, driving deeper insights into material properties and interactions. Minimize physical experiments by virtually screening candidates. Improve formulation performance by integrating design with lab informatics, leading to safer, healthier, and better products. Streamline R&D processes and unlock data-driven decisions with powerful materials informatics to maximize the value of research.
Ensure quality and regulatory compliance by streamlining workflows, enhancing traceability, and providing real-time access to critical data. This makes audits much simpler and ensures adherence to industry standards across research and manufacturing. Reduce quality incidents through automation, improve transparency with robust traceability, and deliver direct access to source data. Accelerate production by automating document creation using data-driven, structured formats, eliminating the need for manual copy-paste tasks.
Apply experimental knowledge to plan and execute new experiments, streamlining procedures and automating workflows for faster results. Manage all aspects of the lab, including instruments, metrology, samples, and inventory, within a unified environment to ensure seamless operations and compliance.
Minimize non-value-adding tasks through automation, standardize processes with a common code base, and share models and best practices across the organization. Deploy user-friendly solutions via web services and apps to increase R&D productivity. Capture structured data, drive data reuse, eliminate “dark data,” and foster collaboration between teams to build better models and accelerate innovation.
Enhance cross-functional collaboration by integrating diverse scientific disciplines and processes into a unified platform. By enabling real-time communication and shared workflows, BIOVIA enables teams to align their efforts, streamline decision-making, and leverage collective expertise. This integration not only accelerates innovation but also improves efficiency by reducing redundancies and ensuring all stakeholders have access to the same up-to-date information.
What can you do with BIOVIA?
BIOVIA offers a comprehensive suite of solutions to support various aspects of scientific research and development.
Laboratory information management
Remove disconnected and paper-based processes that are error-prone and hamper access of relevant data. Digital laboratory information management enables streamlined and more efficient lab workflows, harmonization and standardization, and a fully integrated and automated, easy-to-deploy process.
Data Science
Provide a scalable framework for creating, validating, and consuming data science workflows. From accessing and aggregating data to sophisticated analytics, modeling, and reporting, automating these processes allows novice users to get the most of their data while freeing up expert users to focus on more value-added tasks.
Quality and compliance
Quality is essential for patient safety, treatment efficacy, sustainability, and protection of brand reputation. Integrate automated QDM (quality document management), electronic signatures, audit trails, and QPM (quality process management), for example, CAPA and root-cause analysis, with instant access to data and documents through a unified interface.
Molecular modeling and simulation
Get a snapshot of the fundamental atomic interactions supporting product performance. In silico testing allows researchers to test concepts with minimum risk and lower costs, unlocking new avenues of ideas to explore.
Formulation design
Accelerate product innovation and product launches while successfully navigating complex regulatory requirements and more effectively managing and leveraging their formula, packaging, and consumer intellectual property (IP).
Manufacturing analysis
Provide on-demand access to process and quality data from disparate databases and paper records to automatically aggregate and contextualize data and enable ad-hoc statistical investigations.
How to choose your scientific and laboratory informatics software
Consider factors such as the software’s compatibility with existing systems, its ability to meet your specific data management and analysis needs, and the availability of support and training resources. Evaluate the software’s scalability and flexibility to accommodate future growth and evolving requirements.
How to buy BIOVIA
Looking to purchase BIOVIA licenses? Want to see a demo to understand what BIOVIA can do? Or do you need to speak to an expert before you can make your decision?
BIOVIA comes in all shapes and sizes. We’re here to make sure that you’re getting the right software package for your team.
BIOVIA FAQs
Troubleshooting and Support
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BIOVIA Discovery Studio is a comprehensive suite of software tools designed for modeling and simulation in life sciences. It supports drug discovery and development processes, offering capabilities such as molecular dynamics, quantum mechanics, protein-protein docking, and structure-based drug design.
Built on the BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot platform, it enables researchers to optimize small and large molecule therapeutics, from target identification to lead optimization. Its collaborative environment allows seamless data sharing and integration with third-party tools.
BIOVIA Draw is a chemical drawing software that allows scientists to create and edit complex molecules, chemical reactions, and biological sequences.
It supports features such as stereochemistry visualization, reaction annotation, property calculation, and integration with other tools like Pipeline Pilot. The software also facilitates collaboration by enabling the registration, search, and reporting of chemically modified sequences.
BIOVIA Notebook is a web-based ELN (electronic laboratory notebook) designed to streamline scientific workflows.
It facilitates experiment documentation, data management, intellectual property protection, and team collaboration.
Features include:
- Customizable templates
- Full-text and chemical structure search capabilities
- Electronic signatures for compliance
- Integration with other BIOVIA solutions like Workbook and Pipeline Pilot
BIOVIA desktop connector is a utility that bridges local file systems with BIOVIA applications running in browsers. It enables users to upload, edit, and manage files directly within applications like Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) or BIOVIA Notebook.
This tool enhances productivity by allowing seamless interaction between desktop and cloud-based environments for tasks such as chemical sketching or biological sequence editing.
BIOVIA supports a wide range of file formats for editing and analysis. Commonly supported types include:
- Chemical structure files such as MOL (.mol), SDF (.sdf), RXN (.rxn), RD (.rd), RDF (.rdf)
- Biological sequence files such as FASTA (.fasta), HELM (.helm), XHELM (.xhelm)
- Data files such as CSV (.csv), TXT (.txt), Excel-compatible files
- Visualization files such as PDB (.pdb), CIF (.cif), XYZ (.xyz)
These formats allow users to work with molecular structures, reactions, biological sequences, and experimental data across various BIOVIA applications.
Need help with BIOVIA?
Johannes Storvik and team are on-hand to provide tailored guidance and support with a deep knowledge of the full Dassault Systèmes portfolio. Reach out for a free consultation today.
