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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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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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Macinchem Blog Science Apps Spectroscopy

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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    VIBE-QC: an open-source, general-purpose electronic-structure code

    Another example of vibe-coded chemistry software. We present VIBE-QC, a general-purpose open-source electronic-structure code...

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    ChemDoodle 3D updated

    iChemLabs have just announced a version 8 of ChemDoodle 3D software. This update is free for all ChemDoodle subscriptions, Lifetime and Site licenses. Licenses are as little as $29,...

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    More on web browser extensions

    I recently published two Compound Lookup extensions for Safari and Chrome both of which have been downloaded over 100 times. They allow you so select a drug name in...
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    Cambridge Cheminformatics Network meeting

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