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PyScript

29 April 202329 April 2023 chris

This looks an interesting project, run python in your HTML. PyScript is a framework that allows users to create rich Python applications in the browser

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MolPainter and MolSolvator

22 April 202322 April 2023 chris

MolPainter is a novel GUI tool for constructing layered molecular systems represented using PDB files, it can be used to construct multilayer molecular systems. MolPainter

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alvaScience updates

20 April 202322 April 2023 chris

alvaBuilder v1.0.10: alvaDesc v2.0.16: alvaModel v2.0.8: alvaMolecule v2.0.6: alvaRunner v2.0.8:

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UCSF Chimera update

15 April 202315 April 2023 chris

A new production release of UCSF Chimera (version 1.17) is available: https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/download.html Updating to 1.17 is required to continue to use the following tools: BLAST

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Structure-based searching SQLite database

12 April 202318 February 2025 chris

The previous couple of pages described creating a SQLite database using the Terminal https://macinchem.co.uk/2023/04/12/using-sqlite-for-exact-search/ and then running exact searches from a Jupyter notebook, python script or ChemDraw

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Other ways of using the exact search

12 April 202315 February 2025 chris

A Python Script At the end of the previous page on setting up and accessing a Sqlite datasets from a Jupyter notebook there was and example of

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Using sqlite for exact search

12 April 202312 April 2023 chris

Whilst on most occasions chemical searches involve substructure or similarity searches there are occasions when a simple exact match of a compound identifier (or list

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Datamol.io

11 April 202311 April 2023 chris

In a recent post Pat Walters highlighted the use of molfeat in a google colab notebook https://colab.research.google.com/github/PatWalters/practicalcheminformaticstutorials/blob/main/mlmodels/QSARin8lines.ipynb. I thought I’d also mention other tools available from

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Applescript Hints and Tutorials

Print Folder Contents Applescript

10 April 202326 October 2023 chris

I recently needed a list of all files in a particular folder, actually the folder contained sub-folders also containing files. This tedious task becomes trivial

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Comparing Version Numbers

10 April 202310 April 2023 chris

I’m in the process of updating iBabel and one of the things I’m adding is the option to use some of the newer tools now

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    ChemDoodle 2D v12.11 Update Available

    Version 12.11.0 is a feature update for ChemDoodle 2D. Major features include a function to generate text descriptions of figures, a fully native file chooser, improved MRV file...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/06/19/chemdoodle-2d-v12-11-update-available/
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    molar_vis — a modern molecular viewer in pure Rust

    There are a number of molecular visualisation tools available (many are now showing their age), but this looks an interesting addition A...
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    UCSF ChimeraX version 1.12 has been released

    The latest upsdate of the popular Biomolecular visualisation tool ChimeraX has been releasded https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/download.html This update includes -...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/06/14/ucsf-chimerax-version-1-12-has-been-released/
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    PyChem-Pro

    I just stumbled across this when looking for something else. It looks very interesting A pure-Python desktop application and library for chemistry and cheminformatics — molecular visualization, SMILES parsing,...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/06/11/pychem-pro-2/
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    MOE update and window management

    For a long time the computational chemistry and molecular modelling package MOE from Chemical Computing Group has required XQuartz to provide the windowing environment. With the introduction...
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