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Finding scientific applications has always been a little hit and miss since there is no “science” category on the iTunes store. To help out I’ve created a database listing applications that I knew about

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UCSF ChimeraX version 1.12 has been released

14 June 202614 June 2026 chris

The latest update of the popular Biomolecular visualisation tool ChimeraX has been released, including some exciting new features, https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/download.html This update includes – OpenFold3 structure

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PyChem-Pro

11 June 202611 June 2026 chris

I just stumbled across this when looking for something else. It looks very interesting A pure-Python desktop application and library for chemistry and cheminformatics —

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PyChem-Pro

27 April 202627 April 2026 chris

I’ve just added PyChem-Pro to the list of cheminformatics toolkits https://macinchem.org/2023/02/17/open-source-cheminformatics-toolkits/ PyChem is a desktop chemistry application and Python library that combines molecular visualization (like

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Sweet J on Mac App Store

25 April 202625 April 2026 chris

Calculates the 3J coupling constant from the dihedral angle and the electronegativity of the substituents using either the Altona equation or a generalised Karplus equation. Sweet

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Generation of MedChem-similar Molecules

17 April 202617 April 2026 chris

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

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iNMR updated 7.1.1 released

14 April 202614 April 2026 chris

iNMR is a fantastic app for NMR spectroscopy, it has been around for over 20 years and gets better with every release. It has been

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mlxmolkit — GPU-accelerated molecular toolkit on Apple Silicon

8 April 202614 April 2026 chris

I’ve previously written about mlxmolkit in particular for clustering where see a 40-fold improvement in speed. The toolkit has now been extended to include 3D

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Avogadro 2.0.0 released

5 April 20265 April 2026 chris

Avogadro is a free and open source molecular editor and visualization tool. The new release of Avogadro 2, is a major update, and includes major

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Looking at mlxmolkit — GPU-accelerated molecular clustering on Apple Silicon

3 April 20265 April 2026 chris

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

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Mole2D molecule drawing package

31 March 202631 March 2026 chris

Mole2D is a lightweight molecule drawing package written in Python and PyQt6. All code is on GitHub https://github.com/sfmlab/mole2d and it requires RDKit and PyQt6.. PubChem

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    PyChem-Pro

    I just stumbled across this when looking for something else. It looks very interesting A pure-Python desktop application and library for chemistry and cheminformatics — molecular visualization, SMILES parsing,...

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    MOE update and window management

    For a long time the computational chemistry and molecular modelling package MOE from Chemical Computing Group has required XQuartz to provide the windowing environment. With the introduction...
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    This is a fantastic meeting and we are always delighted to provide as many bursaries as needed.
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    AIRR compute opportunity: AI open access

    This opportunity is open to UK-based researchers and artificial intelligence (AI) developers from academia, industry, public sector or other organisations. This funding...

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    ChEMBL 37 is out

    The latest update of the ChEMBL database is out. There are now nearly 3 million structures, 2 million assays covering over 18,000 targets. One of the big updates has...

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