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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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PROTAC-Splitter: A Machine Learning Framework for Automated Identification of PROTAC Substructures

11 February 202614 February 2026 chris

PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs) technology provides an alternative to module biological function by specially using the ubiquitin proteasome system to induce degradation of the target

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CNotebook integrating OpenEye toolkits into Jupyter

3 February 20263 February 2026 chris

CNotebook provides chemistry visualization for Jupyter Notebooks and Marimo using the OpenEye Toolkits. Import the package and your molecular data will automatically render as chemical

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Visual Studio Code extension that renders SMILES strings

30 January 202630 January 2026 chris

MolView – SMILES Preview is a Visual Studio Code extension that renders SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System) strings as molecular structure diagrams on

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Storing Vortex scripts outside the Vortex file system

28 January 202628 January 2026 chris

At least on a Mac the default place to store Vortex scripts is in the vortex folder ~/vortex/scripts Any folder/scripts you put in the vortex/scripts

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

    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 challenge of...

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    RSC CICAG Chemical Structure Representations Meeting 2026 

    This meeting will be held at Burlington House, London, UK on Wednesday 8th April 2026. A one-day conference on Chemical Structure...
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    OpenADMET Blind Challenge: Predicting PXR Induction

    The next OpenADMET blind challenge focuses on predicting human Pregnane-X Receptor (hPXR) induction. The pregnane X receptor (hPXR) is the major...
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    OpenFold3-preview

    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 OpenFold consortium. This research...
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    ChemeleonSMD distills the CheMeleon pretrained Directed Message Passing Neural Network (DMPNN) into a SCORE-style...

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