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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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Calculate pKa using Rowan

8 February 20258 February 2025 chris

Rowan is a software platform that makes it possible to run high-level quantum chemical calculations through a web interface. In general, running quantum chemical calculations

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TabPFN on Apple Silicon

31 January 202531 January 2025 chris

A recent paper published in Nature caught my eye, Accurate predictions on small data with a tabular foundation model by Hollmann et al., Here we present

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AlphaFold 3 is out

30 January 202530 January 2025 chris

The latest version of AlphaFold is available on GitHub. https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphafold3/releases/tag/v3.0.1

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GROMACS updated

29 January 202529 January 2025 chris

GROMACS 2024.5 has been released. The full release notes are available here https://manual.gromacs.org/documentation/current/release-notes/2024/2024.5.html GROMACS can be compiled on any platform with ANSI C99 and C++17

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Prediction of Hydrogen-Bond-Acceptor Strength

25 January 202525 January 2025 chris

Hydrogen bonds are critical for many aspects of chemistry and biology, from the physicochemical properties of molecules, binding affinity, membrane permeability and more. However, prediction

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Alvascience Tools Now Fully Optimized for Apple Silicon

15 January 202515 January 2025 chris

Whilst Apple’s emulation later Rosetta2 that allows X86_64 applications to run on Apple Silicon this is not ideal especially for computationally intensive tasks. The latest

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VeloxChem open-source quantum chemistry software

14 January 202514 January 2025 chris

I just stumbled across this and thought I’d flag it. VeloxChem is a Python-based open source quantum chemistry software developed for the calculation of molecular

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STOUT V2.0: SMILES to IUPAC name conversion using transformer models

31 December 202431 December 2024 chris

An interesting publication, using the IUPAC rules for naming compounds can be a challenge for for complex systems. This paper describes a transformer-based model https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-024-00941-x

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ChimeraX updated

16 December 202420 January 2025 chris

UCSF ChimeraX version 1.9 has been released! ChimeraX includes user documentation and is free for noncommercial use.Download for Windows, Linux, and MacOS from:https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/download.html Updates since

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AlvaDesc updated

12 December 202412 December 2024 chris

AlvaDesc v3.0.0 has been updated, it has a few new features but for Mac users it is now fully compatible with Apple Silicon!! AlvaDesc is

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