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TabPFN-3: Technical Report

18 May 202618 May 2026 chris

I’ve written about TabPFN previously https://macinchem.org/2025/02/06/looking-at-tabpfn/ and I see a technical report has just been published. https://priorlabs.ai/technical-reports/tabpfn-3 TabPFN is a foundation model  trained on around 130,000,000

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Building a 3D Pharmacophore Model from PDB Data: A free Python Workflow

16 May 202616 May 2026 chris

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7461059877155631105 A fantastic step-by-step breakdown of an example Python pipeline used to build a ligand-based 3D pharmacophore model using free, open-source tools.

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Looking at mlxmolkit — GPU-accelerated molecular clustering on Apple Silicon

3 April 20265 April 2026 chris

I’ve written several posts on the various options for clustering molecules https://macinchem.org/?s=clustering and a recent post from NVIDIA described GPU-Accelerated Clustering with nvMolKit that uses

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Uniprot ID to target name and bio activities

26 March 202626 March 2026 chris

Sometimes target identification studies can just turn up a list of Uniprot IDs, whilst there are a number of places you can go to find

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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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Using t-SNE and Vortex to provide an interactive visualisation

4 March 20264 March 2026 chris

t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) is a statistical method for visualizing high-dimensional data by giving each datapoint a location in a two or three-dimensional map. Whilst there are

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CHEMBL2ML

28 February 202628 February 2026 chris

An interesting web app that fetches ChEMBL bioactivity data for a target (via UniProt ID), computes molecular descriptors, and trains a simple predictive model (regression, with

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Vortex script using BioTransformer

22 February 202622 February 2026 chris

Prediction of the metabolism of small molecules is very challenging and so having a variety of different tools is always useful. I’ve previously written Vortex

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MayaChemTools update

13 February 202613 February 2026 chris

Another addition to the superb MayaChemTools OpenFECalculateRelativeBindingFreeEnergySepTop.py to calculate Relative Binding Free Energy using a Separated Topologies (SepTop)  approach. The script relies on the availability of OpenFE

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    TabPFN-3: Technical Report

    I've written about TabPFN previously https://macinchem.org/2025/02/06/looking-at-tabpfn/ and I see a technical report has just been published. https://priorlabs.ai/technical-reports/tabpfn-3 TabPFN is a...

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    Building a 3D Pharmacophore Model from PDB Data: A free Python Workflow

    https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7461059877155631105 A fantastic step-by-step breakdown of an...
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    September Meetings

    If you are coming to the 9th RSC-CICAG / RSC-BMCS Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry meeting in Cambridge 2-4 September 2026. You might also be interested in the Cambridge Cheminformatics...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/05/11/september-meetings/
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    OpenBind’s First Data and Model Release

    Lack of data has hampered the building of models to accurately predict binding affinity so I'm sure everyone is super excited to see the first tranche of data from...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/05/07/openbinds-first-data-and-model-release/
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    Quantum Computing in Chemistry Conference

    RSC CICAG Quantum Computing in Chemistry: Current Capabilities and the Road to UtilityThursday 19th November 2026, Burlington House, London, UK...

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