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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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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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    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...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/04/29/nanofold-a-protein-folding-data-efficiency-competition/
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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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    AI Discovery Awards

    AI Discovery by Nebius is an annual awards for startups that are leveraging AI to revolutionize drug discovery, biotechnology, genomics and HealthTech.. Details are here https://nebius.com/ai-discovery-award...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/04/24/ai-discovery-awards/

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