On October 14th the OpenBind Blind Challenge was launched, the target is the Zika virus NS2B-NS3 protease. This challenge focuses on predicting how small molecules
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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
A recent paper on ChemRxiv https://chemrxiv.org/doi/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-9c1v6 describes ANNalog a transformer-based sequence-to-sequence generative model trained on pairs of molecules extracted from the same bioactivity assay in
I’ve written several posts on the various options for clustering molecules https://macinchem.org/?s=clustering and a recent post from NVIDIA described GPU-Accelerated Clustering with nvMolKit that uses
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.
t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) is a statistical method for visualizing high-dimensional data by giving each datapoint a location in a two or three-dimensional map. Whilst there are
PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs) technology provides an alternative to module biological function by specially using the ubiquitin proteasome system to induce degradation of the target
CNotebook provides chemistry visualization for Jupyter Notebooks and Marimo using the OpenEye Toolkits. Import the package and your molecular data will automatically render as chemical
MolView – SMILES Preview is a Visual Studio Code extension that renders SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System) strings as molecular structure diagrams on
There was an interesting publication from the Todd group at UCL on Chemrxiv “Idler Compounds: A Simple Protocol for Openly Sharing Fridge Contents for Cross-Screening”