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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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A Vortex script to calculate the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) SCORE

11 March 20234 January 2024 chris

A recent publication described “The Blood–Brain Barrier (BBB) Score” DOI a scoring function to determine the likelihood of a molecule being brain penetrant. The blood–brain barrier (BBB)

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    mlxmolkit — GPU-accelerated molecular clustering on Apple Silicon

    Recently a guest post from NVIDIA described GPU-Accelerated Clustering with nvMolKit that uses CUDA. A recent post no...

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    Molecular Docking with Open Access Software

    In 2020 as a result of lockdown I was asked to help create a course for MRes students as an introduction to computer-aided drug design. [DOI] This work lead...
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    RSC CICAG Chemical Structure Representation

    AI/ML have reignited our thoughts on how we represent chemical structures and so it is very timely that we have a conference on Structural Representation. Registration...
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    MOE now runs on macOS Tahoe!

    Just got this message. We're happy to announce the release of macOS-native MOE 2024.0604 for macOS Tahoe, also compatible with Big Sur and later versions (minimum version 11.5). The...

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    I'm in London for the RSC BMCS committee meeting. Looking around Burlington House I'm reminded what a great venue this is for scientific meetings. The next one I'll be at is Analyticode 2006 on 16 March 2026 www.rsc.org/events/detai.... Still time to register.
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