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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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MOE now runs on macOS Tahoe!

9 March 202614 March 2026 chris

Just got this message. We’re happy to announce the release of macOS-native MOE 2024.0604 for macOS Tahoe, also compatible with Big Sur and later versions

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SpaceLightN

2 March 20262 March 2026 chris

SpaceLightN is a command line tool from Prof. Rarey (University of Hamburg) for similarity-based virtual screening in large combinatorial fragment spaces. It utilizes well-known fingerprints

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BBEdit updated

20 February 202620 February 2026 chris

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

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MayaChemTools update

13 February 202613 February 2026 chris

Another addition to the superb MayaChemTools OpenFECalculateRelativeBindingFreeEnergySepTop.py to calculate Relative Binding Free Energy using a Separated Topologies (SepTop)  approach. The script relies on the availability of OpenFE

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Cheminformatics Microservice V3: a web portal for chemical structure manipulation and analysis

5 February 20265 February 2026 chris

There is an interesting paper in Journal of Cheminformatics  J Cheminform 17, 142 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-025-01094-1 Cheminformatics Microservice V3 aims to provide easily accessible and reproducible cheminformatics tools.

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ChemDoodle 2D v12.10 Update

4 February 20264 February 2026 chris

The popular chemistry drawing package ChemDoodle has been updated. Version 12.10.0 is a feature update for ChemDoodle 2D. Major additions include a much more powerful

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Visual Studio Code extension that renders SMILES strings

30 January 202630 January 2026 chris

MolView – SMILES Preview is a Visual Studio Code extension that renders SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System) strings as molecular structure diagrams on

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Software sustainability fund

29 January 202629 January 2026 chris

A while back I wrote a post on the problems with maintaining scientific software, this seemed to strike a chord and I got a lot

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Ligand Extractor

20 January 202620 January 2026 chris

LigandExtractor can be used to find all ligands in a file from the PDB. In addition to finding all possible ligands, it annotates any problems

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Q-Chem 6.4 released

24 December 202524 December 2025 chris

New features in the Q-Chem 6.4 release include: Core-valence separation (CVS) scheme for ROCIS, XCIS, and QROCISfor calculating accurate core-level spectra of open-shell systems (Avik

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    Quantum Computing in Chemistry Conference

    RSC CICAG Quantum Computing in Chemistry: Current Capabilities and the Road to UtilityThursday 19th November 2026, Burlington House, London, UK...
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    nanoFold a Protein Folding Data-Efficiency Competition

    An interesting way to look for better biological foundation models. The core bet is simple: biological data is expensive. Text and image models...

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    PyChem-Pro

    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...

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    Open Source Cheminformatics Toolkits

    When I wrote the article entitled A few thoughts on scientific software one of the responses I got was that people did not know about the existence of open-source chemistry...

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    Sweet J on Mac App Store

    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 J can be downloaded...

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