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Structure-based searching SQLite database

12 April 202318 February 2025 chris

The previous couple of pages described creating a SQLite database using the Terminal https://macinchem.co.uk/2023/04/12/using-sqlite-for-exact-search/ and then running exact searches from a Jupyter notebook, python script or ChemDraw

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Other ways of using the exact search

12 April 202315 February 2025 chris

A Python Script At the end of the previous page on setting up and accessing a Sqlite datasets from a Jupyter notebook there was and example of

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Using sqlite for exact search

12 April 202312 April 2023 chris

Whilst on most occasions chemical searches involve substructure or similarity searches there are occasions when a simple exact match of a compound identifier (or list

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Datamol.io

11 April 202311 April 2023 chris

In a recent post Pat Walters highlighted the use of molfeat in a google colab notebook https://colab.research.google.com/github/PatWalters/practicalcheminformaticstutorials/blob/main/mlmodels/QSARin8lines.ipynb. I thought I’d also mention other tools available from

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Print Folder Contents Applescript

10 April 202326 October 2023 chris

I recently needed a list of all files in a particular folder, actually the folder contained sub-folders also containing files. This tedious task becomes trivial

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Comparing Version Numbers

10 April 202310 April 2023 chris

I’m in the process of updating iBabel and one of the things I’m adding is the option to use some of the newer tools now

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Codon a high-performance Python compiler

7 April 20237 April 2023 chris

Codon is a high-performance Python compiler that compiles Python code to native machine code without any runtime overhead. Typical speedups over Python are on the

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Cheminformatics on a Mac

6 April 20236 April 2023 chris

There have been some changes with Homebrew which have meant that a few of the scientific applications are no longer available so I’ve decided to

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Using the Python 3 library FPsim2 for similarity searches

6 April 20236 April 2023 chris

FPsim2 is a new tool for fast similarity search on big compound datasets (>100 million) being developed at ChEMBL. It was developed as a Python3 library

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Download multiple PDB files using a Jupyter notebook

1 April 202322 January 2024 chris

The RCSB Protein Data Bank is an absolutely invaluable resource that provides archive-information about the 3D shapes of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies that helps scientists

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