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ChemDoodle 5 Review

9 March 202311 May 2023 chris

I first became aware of ChemDoodle several years ago when it was developed as an inexpensive chemical drawing package, over the years it has been refined and

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A Review of ChemDraw 17

9 March 202326 October 2023 chris

ChemDraw is a very established chemical drawing package that probably sets the standard for publication quality chemical drawing. However, on the Mac platform in particular I

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ChemDoodle Review

4 March 202311 May 2023 chris

ChemDoodle 3.0 from iChemLabs is the latest update of a chemical drawing package that also provides for support for many other types of chemical data such

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ChemDoodle Web Components

4 March 202312 April 2023 chris

Introduction and Background ChemDoodle Web Components are pure javascript objects derived from ChemDoodle™ to solve common chemistry related tasks on the web. These components are powerful,

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A review of ChemBioDraw Ultra

22 February 202322 February 2023 chris

ChemDraw available from Cambridgesoft has long been the perhaps the preferred package for drawing chemical structures for publication quality graphics, it also has been used as the

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A Review of DataWarrior

21 February 202321 February 2023 chris

DataWarrior is a data analysis tool that understands chemistry, it provides an efficient way to search, sort and analyse structure-activity data. DataWarrior was developed at Actelion

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A review of alvaDesc

21 February 202311 May 2023 chris

alvaDesc is a desktop tool for the calculation of a wide range of molecular descriptors and a number of molecular fingerprints from https://www.alvascience.com. alvaDesc can be

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A review of BioTransformer

18 February 202318 February 2023 chris

A recent publication described BioTransformer: a comprehensive computational tool for small molecule metabolism prediction and metabolite identification DOI. There are a number of tools that predict

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A review of Vortex

18 February 202312 March 2023 chris

Whilst the Mac has an increasing share of the Biology or Physics desktop, expansion in Chemistry has been limited due to the availability of key

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Open Source Python Data Science Libraries

17 February 202329 January 2026 chris

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

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    Installing the OpenADMET PXR anvil prediction

    I had a couple of issues installing the PXR model from OpenAMET on my Apple Silicon Mac (https://huggingface.co/openadmet/pxr-chemeleon-baseline) so I thought I'd...

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    mlxmolkit updated

    mlxmolkit is a GPU-accelerated molecular toolkit on Apple Silicon, it is a port of nvMolKit that uses Cuda. There are now three pipelines Molecular Clustering — Morgan FP → Tanimoto...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/08/25/mlxmolkit-updated/
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    Some conferences and meetings that might be of interest.

    9th Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry Symposium (https://www.rscbmcs.org/events/aichem9/) Wednesday 2nd – Friday 4th September 2026,...

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    Is anyone else picking blackberries, seems to be a very good year.
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    Next generation artificial intelligence (AI): explainable AI

    Apply for funding for projects focused on speculative and high-risk fundamental research with the potential to deliver high reward and a...

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