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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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Vortex script for getting PDB ligand structures

6 April 20256 April 2025 chris

The two previous vortex scripts used the PBD id to download information about a biomolecular structure structure from the Worldwide Protein Data Bank. The second

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Two Vortex scripts for interacting with PDB

5 April 20255 April 2025 chris

The Worldwide Protein Data Bank collects, organises and disseminates data on biological macromolecular structures. The wwPDB Partners are: PDBe, RCSB PDB, PDBj, BMRB, EMDB. Currently the PDB contains over

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Cheminformatics tools that work natively with Google tools such as Sheets and BigQuery

31 March 202531 March 2025 chris

Whilst there are a number of chemistry aware spreadsheets Vortex, Stardrop, Datawarrior, InstantJChem, molsoft etc. many people still use Excel or Google sheets. Vexo is

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Checkmol

8 March 202525 March 2025 chris

Checkmol is a command-line utility program which reads molecular structure files in different formats and analyzes the input molecule for the presence of various functional groups

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Using DILIpred

2 March 2025 chris

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a significant concern in drug discovery, in particular because it might only be observed late in large clinical studies, after

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Searching Sqlite database from Vortex

26 February 202527 February 2025 chris

In a previous post I illustrated how to download PubChem and create a local searchable database using a Jupyter notebook. I also included a vortex/python

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Searching a local copy of PubChem

17 February 202524 February 2025 chris

PubChem is an invaluable source of information about 99 million molecules accessible via a website or programmatically. PubChem is an open chemistry database at the National Institutes

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Calculate pKa using Rowan

8 February 20258 February 2025 chris

Rowan is a software platform that makes it possible to run high-level quantum chemical calculations through a web interface. In general, running quantum chemical calculations

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    OpenFold3-preview

    OpenFold3-preview is a biomolecular structure prediction model aiming to be a bitwise reproduction of DeepMind'sAlphaFold3, developed by the AlQuraishi Lab at Columbia University and the OpenFold consortium. This research...
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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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