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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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ORCA Python Interface

16 August 2025 chris

The ORCA Python Interface (OPI) is a Python library to create input and parse output of ORCA. It is designed as an open source community effort

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Selecting random clusters from a large dataset in Vortex

18 July 2025 chris

When making selections from large datasets it is worth mentioning that as datasets get larger a simple random selection is often the best (and quickest)

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Using ChemDraw as input for Boltz docking

11 July 20252 March 2026 chris

A recent paper described Boltz-1: Democratizing Biomolecular Interaction Modeling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.19.624167v2 Boltz-1, an open-source deep learning model incorporating innovations in model architecture, speed optimization, and data processing

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Boltz on Apple Silicon

17 June 202518 June 2025 chris

A recent paper described Boltz-1: Democratizing Biomolecular Interaction Modeling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.19.624167v2 Boltz-1, an open-source deep learning model incorporating innovations in model architecture, speed optimization, and data

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Vortex script to change display of workspace

18 May 20255 June 2025 chris

Sometimes when you import a dataset into a Vortex workspace the default display can be not ideal. For example I imported this CDK7 dataset from

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Using JDBC with Vortex

24 April 202524 April 2025 chris

JDBC, which stands for Java Database Connectivity, is a Java API that allows Java applications to interact with relational databases. There are JDBC drivers for most

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Uniprot to PDB id Vortex script

13 April 202513 April 2025 chris

The previous scripts have allowed the user to get more information about a PDB entry and to import the ligand structures. This script allows the

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BitBirch update

10 April 202510 April 2025 chris

I’ve written a comparison of various clustering tools including BitBirch. A recent preprint [DOI] has illustrated BitBIRCH Clustering Refinement Strategies. In this Application Note we

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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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