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WWDC26

24 March 202624 March 2026 chris

Apple have announced that WWDC26 will take place on June 8-12, 2026. You can follow on the Apple Developer app, Apple website, and YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/@AppleDeveloper

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Running Qwen3.5-397B on a M3 MacBook Pro

22 March 202622 March 2026 chris

A while back Apple published a paper entitled LLM in a flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory [DOI] This paper tackles the

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RSC CICAG Chemical Structure Representations Meeting 2026 

18 March 20262 April 2026 chris

This meeting will be held at Burlington House, London, UK on Wednesday 8th April 2026. A one-day conference on Chemical Structure Representations will bring together

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OpenADMET Blind Challenge: Predicting PXR Induction

17 March 202617 March 2026 chris

The next OpenADMET blind challenge focuses on predicting human Pregnane-X Receptor (hPXR) induction. The pregnane X receptor (hPXR) is the major determinant of CYP3A gene regulation by

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OpenFold3-preview

15 March 202615 March 2026 chris

OpenFold3-preview is a biomolecular structure prediction model aiming to be a bitwise reproduction of DeepMind’sAlphaFold3, developed by the AlQuraishi Lab at Columbia University and the

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SCORE MLX Distilled CheMeleon molecular fingerprints on Apple Silicon

14 March 202614 March 2026 chris

ChemeleonSMD distills the CheMeleon pretrained Directed Message Passing Neural Network (DMPNN) into a SCORE-style architecture running natively on MLX. The SCORE Euler skip connection replaces ChemProp’s hard-overwrite message passing

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PDB reaches a quarter of a million structures

12 March 202612 March 2026 chris

The Protein Data Bank is an invaluable resource for protein structural information. As well as being a resource used by structural biologists, medicinal chemists and

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mlxmolkit — GPU-accelerated molecular clustering on Apple Silicon

11 March 202611 March 2026 chris

Recently a guest post from NVIDIA described GPU-Accelerated Clustering with nvMolKit that uses CUDA. A recent post no describes a port of the nvMolKit (CUDA) molecular clustering

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Molecular Docking with Open Access Software

10 March 202618 March 2026 chris

In 2020 as a result of lockdown I was asked to help create a course for MRes students as an introduction to computer-aided drug design.

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RSC CICAG Chemical Structure Representation

10 March 202610 March 2026 chris

AI/ML have reignited our thoughts on how we represent chemical structures and so it is very timely that we have a conference on Structural Representation.

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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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