Skip to content

Macs in Chemistry

A site for chemists using Macs in Chemistry

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Hints and Tutorials
    • Hints and Tutorials
      • Applescript
      • Other Tips
      • Jupyter Notebook
      • Vortex Scripts
  • iBabel
  • Science Apps
  • Reviews
    • Reviews
    • Apple Silicon
    • Software Reviews
      • Reviews
      • Data Analysis Tools
        • Open Source Python Data Science Libraries
      • Spectroscopy
      • Open Source Cheminformatics Toolkits
  • Fortran on a Mac
    • Fortran on a Mac
    • News items

Category: Hints and Tutorials

Tutorials, Hints, Tips and Tricks

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Hints and Tutorials
  • Page 10
Applescript Hints and Tutorials

Convert ChemDraw to Tiff

12 March 202310 April 2023 chris

ChemDraw from CambridgeSoft has excellent Applescript support. I’m sure many chemists use ChemDraw to create the structures and figures for publications, and whilst ChemDraw can

Read More
Hints and Tutorials Vortex Scripts

Generating IUPAC names for molecules

11 March 202326 October 2023 chris

I was recently asked if I could generate IUPAC names for a series of molecules for a patent filing. There are many chemical drawing packages

Read More
Hints and Tutorials Vortex Scripts

Using JDBC Driver to access Athena from Vortex

11 March 202312 May 2023 chris

This tutorial was created by Jackson Pullman (jackson.pullman@yale.edu) Getting Started Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon

Read More
Hints and Tutorials Vortex Scripts

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

Read More
Hints and Tutorials Vortex Scripts

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)

Read More
Hints and Tutorials Vortex Scripts

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

Read More
Hints and Tutorials Vortex Scripts

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

Read More
Hints and Tutorials Other Tips Vortex Scripts

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

Read More
Hints and Tutorials Vortex Scripts

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

Read More
Hints and Tutorials Vortex Scripts

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

Read More

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 9 10 11 … 16 Next

  • View post by on Bluesky

    @macinchem.bsky.social 1 week

    Generation of MedChem-similar Molecules

    A recent paper on ChemRxiv https://chemrxiv.org/doi/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-9c1v6 describes ANNalog a transformer-based sequence-to-sequence generative model trained on pairs of...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/04/17/generation-of-medchem-similar-molecules/
  • View post by on Bluesky

    @macinchem.bsky.social 2 weeks

    A few upcoming meetings that may be of interest

    Cambridge Cheminformatics Meeting Cambridge Cheminformatics Meeting, 22 April 2026 *** AI Agents for Omics *** Chemical Space Docking for Billion-Sized Libraries...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/04/15/a-few-upcoming-meetings-that-may-be-of-interest/
  • View post by on Bluesky

    @macinchem.bsky.social 2 weeks

    iNMR updated 7.1.1 released

    iNMR is a fantastic app for NMR spectroscopy, it has been around for over 20 years and gets better with every release. It has been compiled for the Apple...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/04/14/inmr-updated-7-1-1-released/
  • View post by on Bluesky

    @macinchem.bsky.social 3 weeks

    Cambridge Cheminformatics Network Meeting

    Cambridge Cheminformatics Meeting, 22 April 2026 *** AI Agents for Omics *** Chemical Space Docking for Billion-Sized Libraries *** Quantum Chemistry for Protein-Ligand...
  • View post by on Bluesky

    @macinchem.bsky.social 3 weeks

    mlxmolkit — GPU-accelerated molecular toolkit on Apple Silicon

    I've previously written about mlxmolkit in particular for clustering where see a 40-fold improvement in speed. The toolkit has now...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/04/08/mlxmolkit-gpu-accelerated-molecular-toolkit-on-apple-silicon/
Last updated 10 minutes ago

Recent Posts

  • Sweet J on Mac App Store
  • AI Discovery Awards
  • Innovate UK Venture Builder Pilot Expression of Interest
  • Generation of MedChem-similar Molecules
  • A few upcoming meetings that may be of interest
Subscribe to the RSS feed

Also now on Bluesky @macinchem.bsky.social

@macinchem.bsky.social

641 Followers 231 Following 198 Posts

Last updated 10 minutes ago

Archives

  • April 2026
  • March 2026
  • February 2026
  • January 2026
  • December 2025
  • November 2025
  • October 2025
  • September 2025
  • August 2025
  • July 2025
  • June 2025
  • May 2025
  • April 2025
  • March 2025
  • February 2025
  • January 2025
  • December 2024
  • November 2024
  • October 2024
  • September 2024
  • August 2024
  • July 2024
  • June 2024
  • May 2024
  • April 2024
  • March 2024
  • February 2024
  • January 2024
  • December 2023
  • November 2023
  • October 2023
  • September 2023
  • July 2023
  • June 2023
  • May 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023

Categories

  • Applescript
  • Data Analysis Tools
  • Fortran on a Mac
  • Hints and Tutorials
  • iBabel
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • Macinchem Blog
  • meetings
  • Other Tips
  • Reviews
  • Science Apps
  • Software Reviews
  • Spectroscopy
  • Uncategorised
  • Vortex Scripts
  • Sweet J on Mac App Store
  • AI Discovery Awards
  • Innovate UK Venture Builder Pilot Expression of Interest
  • Generation of MedChem-similar Molecules
  • A few upcoming meetings that may be of interest
All Rights Reserved 2026.
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Fairy by Candid Themes.
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.