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REINVENT4

7 November 20237 November 2023 chris

REINVENT is a molecular design tool for de novo design, scaffold hopping, R-group replacement, linker design, molecule optimization, and other small molecule design tasks. At

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Parallel docking using EasyDock

5 November 20235 November 2023 chris

As virtual libraries get ever larger the challenges of virtual screening get larger. Whilst docking into a target protein is a very popular and successful

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Excel update helps scientists

23 October 202323 October 2023 chris

Whilst Excel is widely regarded as ubiquitous I avoid using it for many reasons. In particular, the “helpful” automatic formatting of data. However it sounds

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Important notice for BBEdit users

26 September 202326 September 2023 chris

I just got a message about my favourite text editor. They also updated the macOS compatibility page on the web site with this information. BBEdit is a

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New PyMOL script

31 July 202331 July 2023 chris

I just got details of a new script for PyMOL. The script PyMOLVisualizeFpockets.py relies on the presence of PyMOL in your environment and provides functionality to

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Using GitHub Copilot within Xcode

5 May 20235 May 2023 chris

GitHub Copilot uses the OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real-time, right from your editor. https://github.com/features/copilot Whilst I’m hoping that Apple will

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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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Don't forget to register for the BMCS New approaches to the treatment of Parkinson's meeting ❗

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