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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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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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    RSC CICAG Chemical Structure Representations Meeting 2026 

    This meeting will be held at Burlington House, London, UK on Wednesday 8th April 2026. A one-day conference on Chemical Structure...
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    OpenADMET Blind Challenge: Predicting PXR Induction

    The next OpenADMET blind challenge focuses on predicting human Pregnane-X Receptor (hPXR) induction. The pregnane X receptor (hPXR) is the major...
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    OpenFold3-preview

    OpenFold3-preview is a biomolecular structure prediction model aiming to be a bitwise reproduction of DeepMind'sAlphaFold3, developed by the AlQuraishi Lab at Columbia University and the OpenFold consortium. This research...
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    SCORE MLX Distilled CheMeleon molecular fingerprints on Apple Silicon

    ChemeleonSMD distills the CheMeleon pretrained Directed Message Passing Neural Network (DMPNN) into a SCORE-style...

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    PDB reaches a quarter of a million structures

    The Protein Data Bank is an invaluable resource for protein structural information. As well as being a resource used by structural biologists, medicinal chemists and...

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