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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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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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Stardrop update

25 March 20236 May 2023 chris

StarDrop is an application from Optibrium that was designed to aid decision making for scientists involved in drug discovery.  Virtual Library Enumeration  The Nova module allows

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LaTeX and MathML support in Pages and iBooks Author

13 March 202310 April 2023 chris

The latest version of Pages (version 6.1) and iBooks Author (version 2.0) include support for LaTeX and MathML, this is an interesting addition that will

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A workflow for docking/virtual screening 2

11 March 20234 February 2026 chris

In the previous workflow I described docking a set of ligands with known activity into a target protein, in this workflow we will be using a set

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Virtual screening/Docking workflow

11 March 20234 February 2026 chris

Whilst high-throughput screening (HTS) has been the starting point for many successful drug discovery programs the cost of screening, the lack of accessibility of a

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    BBEdit everyone's favourite text editor has been updated to 15.5.5 This update contains only fixes for reported symptoms. Please see the release notes for previous versions for details on what is...

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