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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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An Updated Jupyter Notebook for docking

15 October 202615 October 2026 chris

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

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Compound Lookup Extensions

11 October 202611 October 2026 chris

I just noticed that the Compound Lookup extensions have been downloaded over 100 times (Safari + Chrome) and I’ve received some positive feedback.. I’m delighted

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Building QupKake on Apple Silicon (macOS arm64)

10 October 202610 October 2026 chris

QupKake predicts micro-pKa values with GFN2-xTB plus graph neural networks. Its README targets Linux. On an Apple Silicon Mac the obvious routes all fail: This

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Google Chrome Extension

29 September 20262 October 2026 chris

This a Google Chrome Extension, it allows you so select a drug name in a web page (for example), right-click and from the dropdown menu

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Safari Extension

29 September 202629 September 2026 chris

This a Safari Extension, it allows you so select a drug name in a web page (for example), right-click and from the dropdown menu there

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mlxmolkit updated

23 September 202623 September 2026 chris

mlxmolkit is a GPU-accelerated molecular toolkit using MLX on Apple Silicon, it is a port of nvMolKit that uses Cuda. It now includes Area What

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ChemDoodle Update

20 September 202620 September 2026 chris

ChemDoodle 2D has been updated. The main focus is expanded support for inorganic compounds and complexes, including haptic bonds and multi-center attachments, their use in

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AlvaSketcher

12 September 202624 September 2026 chris

There are a number of chemical drawing packages around that range from lightweight apps for providing structure input to database searches to large fully features

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dock-postprocess

7 September 20267 September 2026 chris

This looks very useful. dock-postprocess is an open-source structure-based drug design toolkit for standardizing docking results and carrying them through restrained OpenMM minimization, pose QC, protein-ligand

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Installing the OpenADMET PXR anvil prediction

25 August 202625 August 2026 chris

I had a couple of issues installing the PXR model from OpenAMET on my Apple Silicon Mac (https://huggingface.co/openadmet/pxr-chemeleon-baseline) so I thought I’d post what I

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    A collection of Python scripts for PyMOL

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