Case Study: OpenEye Scientific powers cloud-native molecular design and seamless Python environment management with Anaconda

How Anaconda Helps Power OpenEye Scientific’s Cloud-Native Molecular Design Platform

OpenEye Scientific, a leader in computational molecular design and creator of the cloud-native Orion platform, needed a reliable way to manage complex Python environments and compiled dependencies that other open-source tools handled too slowly or unreliably. To solve this, OpenEye turned to Anaconda and embedded its package and environment management into Orion to get shared library support, multi-interpreter handling, and deterministic dependency resolution.

Anaconda’s embedded solution gives Orion seamless, reliable access to scientific libraries, lets users manage conda environments, and enables novel cloud-based scientific calculations that would otherwise require expert compilation of dependencies. The result is a smoother developer and user experience—most Orion users don’t even notice Anaconda running in the backend—making advanced molecular design workflows practical and scalable on the cloud.

OpenEye Scientific

Jharrod LaFon

Vice President of Cloud Development