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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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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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    nanoFold a Protein Folding Data-Efficiency Competition

    An interesting way to look for better biological foundation models. The core bet is simple: biological data is expensive. Text and image models...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/04/29/nanofold-a-protein-folding-data-efficiency-competition/
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    PyChem-Pro

    I've just added PyChem-Pro to the list of cheminformatics toolkits https://macinchem.org/2023/02/17/open-source-cheminformatics-toolkits/ PyChem is a desktop chemistry application and Python library that combines molecular...

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    Open Source Cheminformatics Toolkits

    When I wrote the article entitled A few thoughts on scientific software one of the responses I got was that people did not know about the existence of open-source chemistry...

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    Sweet J on Mac App Store

    Calculates the 3J coupling constant from the dihedral angle and the electronegativity of the substituents using either the Altona equation or a generalised Karplus equation. Sweet J can be downloaded...
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    AI Discovery Awards

    AI Discovery by Nebius is an annual awards for startups that are leveraging AI to revolutionize drug discovery, biotechnology, genomics and HealthTech.. Details are here https://nebius.com/ai-discovery-award...

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