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A collection of Vortex scripts to aid cluster analysis

11 March 202310 April 2023 chris

Exploration and sorting large datasets of molecules often involves the use of clustering techniques to group together molecules with similar properties. It can be used

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A Vortex script to calculate the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) SCORE

11 March 20234 January 2024 chris

A recent publication described “The Blood–Brain Barrier (BBB) Score” DOI a scoring function to determine the likelihood of a molecule being brain penetrant. The blood–brain barrier (BBB)

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Vortex script to determine the Amino Acids in a collection of peptides

11 March 202312 November 2024 chris

I’ve recently become interested the comparison of the amino amino-acid composition of peptides, to allow comparison of cyclic versus linear peptides, or brain penetrant verses

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Vortex script to count Identical structures in two datasets

11 March 202315 April 2023 chris

Sometimes I have two datasets and I just want to know the overlap of identical structures. This script counts the number of identical structures by

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A workflow for docking/virtual screening 2

11 March 20234 February 2026 chris

In the previous workflow I described docking a set of ligands with known activity into a target protein, in this workflow we will be using a set

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Virtual screening/Docking workflow

11 March 20234 February 2026 chris

Whilst high-throughput screening (HTS) has been the starting point for many successful drug discovery programs the cost of screening, the lack of accessibility of a

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Rescoring Docking using RF-Score-VS vortex script

11 March 202318 April 2023 chris

A little while back I described a docking workflow including a rescoring script for Vortex, so I thought it might be useful to include this on a

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Vortex script to make a random selection

11 March 202315 May 2023 chris

Sometimes it is the simplest scripts that prove to be the most useful. I regularly need to select a specified number of molecules in a

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Implementing AB-MPS scoring

11 March 202311 May 2023 chris

Whilst the rule of 5 (Ro5) has provided a useful way to describe small molecule drug space it is also clear that there are a

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Vortex script to flag potential kinase inhibitors

11 March 202315 May 2023 chris

Much of our understanding of the binding of ligands to kinases has come from crystallographic studies, and there are currently several thousand kinase crystal structures

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    nanoFold a Protein Folding Data-Efficiency Competition

    An interesting way to look for better biological foundation models. The core bet is simple: biological data is expensive. Text and image models...

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    PyChem-Pro

    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...

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    Open Source Cheminformatics Toolkits

    When I wrote the article entitled A few thoughts on scientific software one of the responses I got was that people did not know about the existence of open-source chemistry...

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    Sweet J on Mac App Store

    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 J can be downloaded...

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