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Vortex script to predict sites of metabolism

11 March 20235 May 2023 chris

It is really useful to have two sites of metabolism tools available that use contrasting methodologies, FAME 2 using curated dataset of experimentally determined metabolism

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Vortex script to get PDB information

11 March 202312 April 2023 chris

A while back I published two scripts that use UniChem a web resource provided by the EBI, a ‘Unified Chemical Identifier’ system, designed to assist in the

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A Functional Group Count Vortex Script

11 March 20238 March 2025 chris

I recently wrote a review of Reaction Workflows, a web-based tool that allow users to build workflows from nodes that provide inputs and outputs or perform

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Several ways of Vortex scripting Name to Structure

11 March 202312 April 2023 chris

Too often I come across datasets that Chemical names or identifiers but no actual molecular structure, recently Dan at Dotmatics suggested I look at OPSIN.

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Vortex script for Analysis of Categories

11 March 202318 April 2023 chris

I often need to tag individual molecules within a dataset with a specific property, perhaps the results of clustering algorithms, the results of PAINS filtering, or Liver

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Vortex script Accessing ZINC supplier information

11 March 202315 May 2023 chris

ZINC is a free database of commercially-available compounds for virtual screening. ZINC contains over 100 million purchasable compounds in ready-to-dock, 3D formats. Sterling and Irwin, J. Chem.

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Vortex Dealing with Greek characters in column names

11 March 20238 June 2023 chris

Just a quick tip. Sometimes I have a column in a Vortex workspace that I want to access via script where the title is something

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Vortex script for flexible search using Un1chem

11 March 202312 April 2023 chris

UniChem is a web resource provided by the EBI, it is a ‘Unified Chemical Identifier’ system, designed to assist in the rapid cross-referencing of chemical structures,

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Vortex script for Getting UniChem data from ChEMBL

11 March 202312 April 2023 chris

UniChem is a web resource provided by the EBI, it is a ‘Unified Chemical Identifier’ system, designed to assist in the rapid cross-referencing of chemical structures,

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Vortex script to flag potential aggregators

11 March 20235 May 2023 chris

Promiscuous inhibition caused by small molecule aggregation is a major source of false positive results in high-throughput screening. To mitigate this, use of a nonionic

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    Using t-SNE to provide an interactive visualisation

    t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) is a statistical method for visualizing high-dimensional data by giving each datapoint a location in...
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    SpaceLightN

    SpaceLightN is a command line tool from Prof. Rarey (University of Hamburg) for similarity-based virtual screening in large combinatorial fragment spaces. It utilizes well-known fingerprints methods such as the...

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    Fortran on a Mac

    I've updated the Fortran on a Mac page https://macinchem.org/fortran-on-a-mac/ Now includes gcc-15.2-mx-bin.tar.gz, gfortran-15.2-mx-bin.tar.gz (gfortran only), updated Jan 2026 (Tahoe — Apple...

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    CHEMBL2ML

    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 an optional classification fallback)....

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