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Vortex script for getting PDB ligand structures

6 April 20256 April 2025 chris

The two previous vortex scripts used the PBD id to download information about a biomolecular structure structure from the Worldwide Protein Data Bank. The second

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Two Vortex scripts for interacting with PDB

5 April 20255 April 2025 chris

The Worldwide Protein Data Bank collects, organises and disseminates data on biological macromolecular structures. The wwPDB Partners are: PDBe, RCSB PDB, PDBj, BMRB, EMDB. Currently the PDB contains over

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Using DILIpred

2 March 2025 chris

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a significant concern in drug discovery, in particular because it might only be observed late in large clinical studies, after

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Searching Sqlite database from Vortex

26 February 202527 February 2025 chris

In a previous post I illustrated how to download PubChem and create a local searchable database using a Jupyter notebook. I also included a vortex/python

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Searching a local copy of PubChem

17 February 202524 February 2025 chris

PubChem is an invaluable source of information about 99 million molecules accessible via a website or programmatically. PubChem is an open chemistry database at the National Institutes

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Vortex script to export multiple workspaces to individual sdf files.

19 November 202419 November 2024 chris

Sometimes when I’m comparing multiple datasets I end up with 10-20 different Vortex workspaces, for example if I’m comparing commercial screening collections from different vendors.

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Vortex script for Analysis of Categories

29 October 202429 October 2024 chris

I published a page describing a Vortex script for category analysis that I wrote a while back but I thought I’d mention it because I’m

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Generating IUPAC names for molecules

11 March 202326 October 2023 chris

I was recently asked if I could generate IUPAC names for a series of molecules for a patent filing. There are many chemical drawing packages

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Using JDBC Driver to access Athena from Vortex

11 March 202312 May 2023 chris

This tutorial was created by Jackson Pullman (jackson.pullman@yale.edu) Getting Started Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon

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A collection of Vortex scripts to aid cluster analysis

11 March 202310 April 2023 chris

Exploration and sorting large datasets of molecules often involves the use of clustering techniques to group together molecules with similar properties. It can be used

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    UCSF ChimeraX version 1.12 has been released

    The latest upsdate of the popular Biomolecular visualisation tool ChimeraX has been releasded https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/download.html This update includes -...

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    PyChem-Pro

    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 — molecular visualization, SMILES parsing,...

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    MOE update and window management

    For a long time the computational chemistry and molecular modelling package MOE from Chemical Computing Group has required XQuartz to provide the windowing environment. With the introduction...
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    AIRR compute opportunity: AI open access

    This opportunity is open to UK-based researchers and artificial intelligence (AI) developers from academia, industry, public sector or other organisations. This funding...

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