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Looking at TabPFN

6 February 202517 February 2025 chris

TabPFN is a foundation model  trained on around 130,000,000 synthetically generated datasets that mimic “real world” tabular data. These datasets sampled dataset size and number

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TabPFN on Apple Silicon

31 January 202531 January 2025 chris

A recent paper published in Nature caught my eye, Accurate predictions on small data with a tabular foundation model by Hollmann et al., Here we present

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Structure-aware generative molecular design: from 2D or 3D?

20 January 202520 January 2025 chris

A very nice review of generative models for molecular design from Morgan Thomas. https://cheminformantics.blogspot.com/2024/12/structure-aware-generative-molecular.html Includes Jupyter notebooks for data and analysis.

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Alvascience Tools Now Fully Optimized for Apple Silicon

15 January 202515 January 2025 chris

Whilst Apple’s emulation later Rosetta2 that allows X86_64 applications to run on Apple Silicon this is not ideal especially for computationally intensive tasks. The latest

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STOUT V2.0: SMILES to IUPAC name conversion using transformer models

31 December 202431 December 2024 chris

An interesting publication, using the IUPAC rules for naming compounds can be a challenge for for complex systems. This paper describes a transformer-based model https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-024-00941-x

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Using VMD and Gromacs on M4 Macs

4 December 202413 January 2025 chris

A reader asks about running VMD and installing Gromacs on M4 Macs. I don’t use either application and looking on the VMD website there is

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Vortex script to export multiple workspaces to individual sdf files.

19 November 202419 November 2024 chris

Sometimes when I’m comparing multiple datasets I end up with 10-20 different Vortex workspaces, for example if I’m comparing commercial screening collections from different vendors.

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Boltz-1:Democratizing Biomolecular Interaction Modeling

18 November 202418 November 2024 chris

The Jameel Clinic have just released Boltz-1, an open-source model designed to accurately model complex biomolecular interactions. Boltz-1 is an open-source model which predicts the

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GitHub Copilot for Xcode is now available

15 November 2024 chris

GitHub have announced that GitHub Copilot for Xcode is now available is now available for public preview. Key features of GitHub Copilot for Xcode: You

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Using lwreg with the RDKit cartridge

31 October 202431 October 2024 chris

Fabulous blog post from Greg Landrum, Includes a tutorial on installing PostgreSQL and the cartridge with conda. This post shows how to use the RDKit

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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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