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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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Vortex script for Analysis of Categories

29 October 202429 October 2024 chris

I published a page describing a Vortex script for category analysis that I wrote a while back but I thought I’d mention it because I’m

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Clustering large datasets

13 September 202413 September 2024 chris

Clustering is an invaluable cheminformatics technique for subdividing a typically large compound collection into small groups of similar compounds. One of the advantages is that

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Chemical registration software

12 July 202412 July 2024 chris

The publication describing lwreg is now available. Here, we present lwreg, a lightweight, yet flexible chemical registration system supporting the capture of both two-dimensional molecular

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Sort & Slice: A Simple and Superior Alternative to Hash-Based Folding for Extended-Connectivity Fingerprints

4 June 20244 June 2024 chris

An interesting alternative to hash-based folding on arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17954 Code is on GitHub https://github.com/MarkusFerdinandDablander/ECFP-substructure-pooling-Sort-and-Slice

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MolPipeline

22 April 202422 April 2024 chris

This looks very useful for anyone having to process multiple molecules, I particularly like the error processing! The open-source package scikit-learn provides various machine learning

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TMAP on Apple Silicon

16 April 202422 April 2024 chris

tmap is a very fast visualisation library for large, high-dimensional data sets. It was published in 2020 DOI and the code is available on GitHub

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A Jupyter Notebook to compare similarity between molecules

11 April 202411 April 2024 chris

I’m sometimes asked for a tool to compare the similarity of a list of molecules with every other molecule in the list. I suspect there

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A couple Rowan updates:

30 March 202430 March 2024 chris

(1) Added TeraChem support last week, meaning you can now run GPU-accelerated DFT calculations. (Read more about TeraChem + Rowan here.) (2) Rowan now has tautomer + conformer

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    Avogadro 2.0.0 released

    Avogadro is a free and open source molecular editor and visualization tool. The new release of Avogadro 2, is a major update, and includes major changes, a revised interface,...
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    Looking at mlxmolkit — GPU-accelerated molecular clustering on Apple Silicon

    I've written several posts on the various options for clustering molecules...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/04/03/looking-at-mlxmolkit-gpu-accelerated-molecular-clustering-on-apple-silicon/
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    RSC CICAG Chemical Structure Representations Meeting 2026 

    I've just signed up for the meeting, hope to see you there at Burlington House, London, UK Wednesday 8th April 2026 A one-day conference...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/04/01/rsc-cicag-chemical-structure-representations-meeting-2026-2/
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    Mole2D molecule drawing package

    Mole2D is a lightweight molecule drawing package written in Python and PyQt6. All code is on GitHub https://github.com/sfmlab/mole2d and it requires RDKit and PyQt6.. PubChem lookup...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/03/31/mole2d-molecule-drawing-package/
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    RDKit Updated

    An update to RDKit has been released 2026_03_1 (Q1 2026). Highlights A significant number of known SMILES canonicalization problems were resolved. It's now possible to provide your own matching...
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