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Options for Clustering large datasets of Molecules

5 March 202310 April 2025 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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Calculating molecular properties using the ChemAxon cxcalc

4 March 202325 April 2023 chris

ChemAxon’s Calculator (cxcalc) is a really useful command line program in Marvin Beans and JChem that performs chemical calculations using calculator plugins. There are a

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Scripting Vortex and OpenBabel

4 March 202312 April 2023 chris

I’m finding that I using Vortex more and more in my day job, it is an excellent application for displaying and exploring large or complex

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Knime Tutorial

4 March 202315 April 2023 chris

This tutorial was kindly provided by Greg a Macinchem reader. OVERVIEW AND APPLICATION OF KNIME AND CDKDescUI.jar KNIME1, the Konstanz Information Miner, is a visual platform

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ChemDoodle Web Components

4 March 202312 April 2023 chris

Introduction and Background ChemDoodle Web Components are pure javascript objects derived from ChemDoodle™ to solve common chemistry related tasks on the web. These components are powerful,

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Vortex script to flag duplicates

18 February 202312 April 2023 chris

When working with multiple data sets of molecules, particularly if combining them from multiple sources, one of the most common tasks is removal of duplicates.

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Useful Unix commands

18 February 202321 April 2023 chris

I’m regularly handling very large files containing millions for chemical structures and whilst BBEdit is my usual tool for editing text files in practice it

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Jupyter Notebook for docking either locally or using Colab

17 February 202317 February 2023 chris

Here are two variations of a Jupyter Notebook to help with docking experiments. The first version runs locally and requires the user to install RDKit,

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Print Clipboard

13 February 202326 October 2023 chris

One of the most popular downloads on the site is the “Print Clipboard” script. This AppleScript prints any text copied to the clipboard without the

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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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