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Review of Burette

28 July 202630 July 2026 chris

How often have you found a structure file on your desktop and wondered what it contained? You could open it in the relevant software application

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Looking at mlxmolkit — GPU-accelerated molecular clustering on Apple Silicon

3 April 20265 April 2026 chris

I’ve written several posts on the various options for clustering molecules https://macinchem.org/?s=clustering and a recent post from NVIDIA described GPU-Accelerated Clustering with nvMolKit that uses

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BitBirch update

10 April 202510 April 2025 chris

I’ve written a comparison of various clustering tools including BitBirch. A recent preprint [DOI] has illustrated BitBIRCH Clustering Refinement Strategies. In this Application Note we

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Looking at TabPFN

6 February 202517 February 2025 chris

TabPFN is a foundation model  trained on around 130,000,000 synthetically generated datasets that mimic “real world” tabular data. These datasets sampled dataset size and number

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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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Sire paper out.

1 June 20241 June 2024 chris

Sire is a Python/C++ library that is used both to prototype new algorithms and as an interoperability engine for exchanging information between molecular simulation programs.

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CMD + V for chemistry: Image to chemical structure conversion directly done in the clipboard

2 March 20242 March 2024 chris

This is very cool. Clipboard-to-SMILES Converter (C2SC), is a macOS application that directly converts molecular structures from the clipboard. The app focuses on seamlessly converting

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Looking at Rowan a web-native quantum chemistry package

27 January 202428 January 2024 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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Review of SDF Pro from Adroit DI. June 2023

5 November 202312 November 2023 chris

SDF Pro enables chemists to upload, organise, and integrate chemical and biological data at scale. With the ability to import and manage millions of data records

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MOE 2015.10 Review

25 March 20231 April 2023 chris

The 2015.10 release of Chemical Computing Group’s Molecular Operating Environment (MOE) software includes a number of new features, enhancements and changes and I thought it might be

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    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 that such a niche...

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    Building QupKake on Apple Silicon (macOS arm64)

    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: The...

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