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A Review of ChemDraw 17

9 March 202326 October 2023 chris

ChemDraw is a very established chemical drawing package that probably sets the standard for publication quality chemical drawing. However, on the Mac platform in particular I

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ChemDraw Advanced User tips

9 March 202324 May 2023 chris

If you are a regular user of ChemDraw you may be aware of the keyboard shortcuts that enable to quickly enter chemical structures.In fact there

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Combining PDFs using an Automator Workflow

6 March 202318 May 2023 chris

Today I was sent a license agreement as a 6 page pdf file, I was asked to sign the document and send it back. All

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Preview Tips

6 March 202311 May 2023 chris

PDF seems to have become the standard for online distribution of publications, this is despite many obvious limitations. In particular from the point of view

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Applescript Copy File to MobileMe and Create email message

6 March 202326 October 2023 chris

MobileMe is no longer available but this script could be modified to save in other online storage facilities. Whilst Apple now allow you to send

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Applescript and Unix

6 March 202326 October 2023 chris

Beneath the beautiful Mac OS X interface lies an industrial-strength UNIX system, many of the key UNIX-based scientific applications are now available under Mac OS

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Getting started with AppleScript

6 March 202326 October 2023 chris

This is the first of what will hopefully be a series of tutorials on Apple’s own scripting language Applescript. I should perhaps begin with a

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Vortex script using Openbabel for similarity searching

6 March 202315 May 2023 chris

An earlier script showed how to calculate molecular similarity between the first molecule in the file and all the other molecules using OpenBabel as shown

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Vortex script using MOE to calculate properties

6 March 202321 June 2023 chris

MOE from Chemical Computing Group is probably best known as a graphical user interface to a suite of computational chemistry tools, whilst this is indubitably the means

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Vortex script to analyze categories

5 March 202312 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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    SCORE MLX Distilled CheMeleon molecular fingerprints on Apple Silicon

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

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    PDB reaches a quarter of a million structures

    The Protein Data Bank is an invaluable resource for protein structural information. As well as being a resource used by structural biologists, medicinal chemists and...

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    mlxmolkit — GPU-accelerated molecular clustering on Apple Silicon

    Recently a guest post from NVIDIA described GPU-Accelerated Clustering with nvMolKit that uses CUDA. A recent post no...

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    Molecular Docking with Open Access Software

    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. [DOI] This work lead...
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    RSC CICAG Chemical Structure Representation

    AI/ML have reignited our thoughts on how we represent chemical structures and so it is very timely that we have a conference on Structural Representation. Registration...
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