An interesting way to look for better biological foundation models. The core bet is simple: biological data is expensive. Text and image models often improve
Month: April 2026
I’ve just added PyChem-Pro to the list of cheminformatics toolkits https://macinchem.org/2023/02/17/open-source-cheminformatics-toolkits/ PyChem is a desktop chemistry application and Python library that combines molecular visualization (like
Calculates the 3J coupling constant from the dihedral angle and the electronegativity of the substituents using either the Altona equation or a generalised Karplus equation. Sweet
AI Discovery by Nebius is an annual awards for startups that are leveraging AI to revolutionize drug discovery, biotechnology, genomics and HealthTech.. Details are here https://nebius.com/ai-discovery-award Submission deadline is April 30
An interesting potential funding opportunity Innovate UK is funding up to £150,000 for a pilot Innovate UK Venture Builder Programme to support new deep-tech spin-outs
A recent paper on ChemRxiv https://chemrxiv.org/doi/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-9c1v6 describes ANNalog a transformer-based sequence-to-sequence generative model trained on pairs of molecules extracted from the same bioactivity assay in
Cambridge Cheminformatics Meeting Cambridge Cheminformatics Meeting, 22 April 2026 *** AI Agents for Omics *** Chemical Space Docking for Billion-Sized Libraries *** Quantum Chemistry for
iNMR is a fantastic app for NMR spectroscopy, it has been around for over 20 years and gets better with every release. It has been
Cambridge Cheminformatics Meeting, 22 April 2026 *** AI Agents for Omics *** Chemical Space Docking for Billion-Sized Libraries *** Quantum Chemistry for Protein-Ligand Interactions ***
I’ve previously written about mlxmolkit in particular for clustering where see a 40-fold improvement in speed. The toolkit has now been extended to include 3D