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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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Raymol, Molecular visualisation for Mac, Ipad, iPhone

30 July 202630 July 2026 chris

One of the advantages of Apple Silicon is we are starting to see applications that take advantage of the new hardware. Raymol is a free

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ProLIF updated

29 July 202629 July 2026 chris

ProLIF (Protein-Ligand Interaction Fingerprints) is a tool designed to generate interaction fingerprints for complexes made of ligands, protein, DNA or RNA molecules extracted from molecular

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ChemScribble, hand draw chemical structures

7 July 20267 July 2026 chris

There have been a couple of attempts to create an application that allows users to hand draw chemical structures. Some rely on chemical structure recognition

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ChemDoodle 2D v12.11 Update Available

19 June 202619 June 2026 chris

Version 12.11.0 is a feature update for ChemDoodle 2D. Major features include a function to generate text descriptions of figures, a fully native file chooser,

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molar_vis — a modern molecular viewer in pure Rust

18 June 202618 June 2026 chris

There are a number of molecular visualisation tools available (many are now showing their age), but this looks an interesting addition A modern, legacy-free molecular visualizer modeled

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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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