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A couple of interesting posts

2 November 20262 November 2026 chris

I’m seeing an increasing number of useful utilities being developed using AI coding tools NISPO NISPO is an open-source, RDKit-based Python package for generating IUPAC

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OpenBind Blind Challenge: Zika virus NS2B-NS3 protease

22 October 202622 October 2026 chris

On October 14th the OpenBind Blind Challenge was launched, the target is the Zika virus NS2B-NS3 protease. This challenge focuses on predicting how small molecules

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An Updated Jupyter Notebook for docking

15 October 202615 October 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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Building QupKake on Apple Silicon (macOS arm64)

10 October 202610 October 2026 chris

QupKake predicts micro-pKa values with GFN2-xTB plus graph neural networks. Its README targets Linux. On an Apple Silicon Mac the obvious routes all fail: This

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A collection of Python scripts for PyMOL

9 October 20269 October 2026 chris

Jeremy Tame recently mentioned a python script to produce clickable Ramachandran plots, code is available on GitHub https://github.com/JezTame/pymol-rama His website also describes several other useful

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Clustering

1 October 20261 October 2026 chris

Clustering is an invaluable cheminformatics technique for subdividing a typically large compound collection into small groups of similar compounds. One of the advantages is that

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Google Chrome Extension

29 September 20262 October 2026 chris

This a Google Chrome Extension, it allows you so select a drug name in a web page (for example), right-click and from the dropdown menu

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Installing the OpenADMET PXR anvil prediction

25 August 202625 August 2026 chris

I had a couple of issues installing the PXR model from OpenAMET on my Apple Silicon Mac (https://huggingface.co/openadmet/pxr-chemeleon-baseline) so I thought I’d post what I

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mlxmolkit updated

25 August 202625 August 2026 chris

mlxmolkit is a GPU-accelerated molecular toolkit on Apple Silicon, it is a port of nvMolKit that uses Cuda. There are now three pipelines Full details

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Review of Burette

28 July 202630 July 2026 chris

How often have you found a structure file on your desktop and wondered what it contained? You could open it in the relevant software application

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    Cambridge Cheminformatics Network meeting

    The next Cambridge Cheminformatics Network Meeting is 11 November 2026, 4pm UK time at Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Cambridge, UK and Online (Hybrid...
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    ChemDraft and open-source chemical drawing package

    A reader recently highlighted ChemDraft (https://chemdraft.ai). A lightweight, open-source (Apache-2.0) chemical drawing app for macOS and Windows. It is...
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    A couple of interesting posts

    I'm seeing an increasing number of useful utilities being developed using AI coding tools NISPO NISPO is an open-source, RDKit-based Python package for generating IUPAC names of molecules....

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    Burette Updated

    Burette is a macOS desktop app and Quick Look extension for molecular previews: Mol* 3D, xyzrender SVG, and RDKit grids. There is a review of Burette here it can...
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    Avogadro Updated

    Avogadro is an advanced open source molecular editor and visualization tool. Download and installation instructions are here...
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