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This software has been constantly developed and freely released during the last 20\u2009years and has now reached a significant diffusion and technology level as confirmed by the about 22\u2009500 registered users. While being primarily developed for drug design studies, the VEGA package includes cheminformatics and modeling features, which can be fruitfully utilized in various contexts of the computational chemistry. To offer a glimpse of the remarkable potentials of the software, some examples of the implemented features in the cheminformatics field and for structure-based studies are discussed. 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