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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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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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    ChEMBL 37 is out

    The latest update of the ChEMBL database is out. There are now nearly 3 million structures, 2 million assays covering over 18,000 targets. One of the big updates has...

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    9th Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry Symposium

    When Nathan Brown and I first discussed a proposed Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry meeting a decade ago we were concerned that the event might not...

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    TabPFN-3: Technical Report

    I've written about TabPFN previously https://macinchem.org/2025/02/06/looking-at-tabpfn/ and I see a technical report has just been published. https://priorlabs.ai/technical-reports/tabpfn-3 TabPFN is a...

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    Building a 3D Pharmacophore Model from PDB Data: A free Python Workflow

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    September Meetings

    If you are coming to the 9th RSC-CICAG / RSC-BMCS Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry meeting in Cambridge 2-4 September 2026. You might also be interested in the Cambridge Cheminformatics...

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