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External drives for Mac

30 November 202530 November 2025 chris

I’ve updated the page describing my testing of various external hard drive options. https://macinchem.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=1899 On my Mac Studio M2 Ultra the ACASIS 80Gbps M.2 NVMe

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External SSD drives

21 November 202521 November 2025 chris

I’ve just purchased another external hard drive, after reviewing options I ended up buying another Acacias enclosure with the Crucial P310 4TB SSD M.2 2280

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TabPFN-2.5

10 November 202510 November 2025 chris

I’ve reviewed TabPFN in the past. https://macinchem.org/2025/02/06/looking-at-tabpfn and I noticed there was a recent update. TabPFN is a foundation model  trained on around 130,000,000 synthetically generated

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Use the Foundation Models framework to access the on-device LLM that powers Apple Intelligence.

8 October 2025 chris
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MayaChemTools updated

2 October 20252 October 2025 chris

The excellent MayChemTools has been updated MayaChemTools is a growing collection of Perl and Python scripts, modules, and classes to support a variety of day-to-day computational discovery needs. The

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ChEMBL 36 is out

26 September 202526 September 2025 chris

One of the most useful databases for anyone involved in studies involved in biologically active molecules. ChEMBL is a manually curated database of bioactive molecules

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SimpleFold: Folding Proteins is Simpler than You Think

24 September 202524 September 2025 chris

Apple just posted preprint on arxiv describing a new protein structure prediction tool SimpleFold https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18480. All code is available on GitHub https://github.com/apple/ml-simplefold including a simple

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XQuartz and macOS Tahoe

18 September 202519 September 2025 chris

A couple of readers have mentioned issues with using XQuartz after upgrading to macOS Tahoe. Looking on GitHub there are a couple issues. https://github.com/XQuartz/XQuartz/issues/446 https://github.com/XQuartz/XQuartz/issues/438

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nvMolKit: a core set of GPU-accelerated RDKit functions

11 September 202518 September 2025 chris

An interesting post from Nvidia. nvMolKit, is a standalone, GPU-accelerated library that delivers 1-4 orders of magnitude of acceleration across five key functions: Morgan Fingerprinting,

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KNIME in cheminformatics

25 August 202511 September 2025 chris

A recent excellent blog post highlighted the use of a KNIME workflow. KNIME https://www.knime.com is a workflow platform that can be used for many cheminformatics

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    Vortex script using BioTransformer

    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 scripts to use SMARTCyp...

    Vortex script using BioTransformer

    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 scripts to use SMARTCyp and...

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    BBEdit updated

    BBEdit everyone's favourite text editor has been updated to 15.5.5 This update contains only fixes for reported symptoms. Please see the release notes for previous versions for details on what is...

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    AI Club for Biomedicine

    Well it was standing room only at the last nights Cambridge Cheminformatics Network meeting Co-folding special. Many thanks to all the speakers I'm sorry we did not have time...

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    Apple Event March 4th 2026

    Apple today announced a "special Apple Experience" in New York, London, and Shanghai, taking place on March 4, 2026 at 9:00am ET. Interesting that it is taking place simultaneously...

    Apple Event March 4th 2026

    Apple today announced a "special Apple Experience" in New York, London, and Shanghai, taking place on March 4, 2026 at 9:00am ET. Interesting that it is taking place simultaneously in...

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    Grant funded high-throughput screening

    Apply for funding to run a high throughput screen (HTS) using AstraZeneca’s compound library and screening robots. There are two funding opportunities per year that are open to...

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