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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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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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    VIBE-QC: an open-source, general-purpose electronic-structure code

    Another example of vibe-coded chemistry software. We present VIBE-QC, a general-purpose open-source electronic-structure code...

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    ChemDoodle 3D updated

    iChemLabs have just announced a version 8 of ChemDoodle 3D software. This update is free for all ChemDoodle subscriptions, Lifetime and Site licenses. Licenses are as little as $29,...

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    More on web browser extensions

    I recently published two Compound Lookup extensions for Safari and Chrome both of which have been downloaded over 100 times. They allow you so select a drug name in...
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    Cambridge Cheminformatics Network meeting

    The next Cambridge Cheminformatics Network Meeting is 11 November 2026, 4pm UK time at Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Cambridge, UK and Online (Hybrid...
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    ChemDraft and open-source chemical drawing package

    A reader recently highlighted ChemDraft (https://chemdraft.ai). A lightweight, open-source (Apache-2.0) chemical drawing app for macOS and Windows. It is...
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