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Vortex script to determine the Amino Acids in a collection of peptides

11 March 202312 November 2024 chris

I’ve recently become interested the comparison of the amino amino-acid composition of peptides, to allow comparison of cyclic versus linear peptides, or brain penetrant verses

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Vortex script to count Identical structures in two datasets

11 March 202315 April 2023 chris

Sometimes I have two datasets and I just want to know the overlap of identical structures. This script counts the number of identical structures by

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A workflow for docking/virtual screening 2

11 March 20234 February 2026 chris

In the previous workflow I described docking a set of ligands with known activity into a target protein, in this workflow we will be using a set

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Rescoring Docking using RF-Score-VS vortex script

11 March 202318 April 2023 chris

A little while back I described a docking workflow including a rescoring script for Vortex, so I thought it might be useful to include this on a

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Vortex script to make a random selection

11 March 202315 May 2023 chris

Sometimes it is the simplest scripts that prove to be the most useful. I regularly need to select a specified number of molecules in a

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Implementing AB-MPS scoring

11 March 202311 May 2023 chris

Whilst the rule of 5 (Ro5) has provided a useful way to describe small molecule drug space it is also clear that there are a

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Vortex script to flag potential kinase inhibitors

11 March 202315 May 2023 chris

Much of our understanding of the binding of ligands to kinases has come from crystallographic studies, and there are currently several thousand kinase crystal structures

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Interacting with Protein Data Bank

11 March 20235 April 2025 chris

The PDB api has been changed so these scripts no longer work, updated scripts can be found here https://macinchem.org/2025/04/05/two-vortex-scripts-for-interacting-with-pdb/ The RCSB Protein Data Bank is an absolutely

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Vortex script to predict sites of metabolism

11 March 20235 May 2023 chris

It is really useful to have two sites of metabolism tools available that use contrasting methodologies, FAME 2 using curated dataset of experimentally determined metabolism

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Vortex script to get PDB information

11 March 202312 April 2023 chris

A while back I published two scripts that use UniChem a web resource provided by the EBI, a ‘Unified Chemical Identifier’ system, designed to assist in the

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    OpenFold3-preview

    OpenFold3-preview is a biomolecular structure prediction model aiming to be a bitwise reproduction of DeepMind'sAlphaFold3, developed by the AlQuraishi Lab at Columbia University and the OpenFold consortium. This research...
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    SCORE MLX Distilled CheMeleon molecular fingerprints on Apple Silicon

    ChemeleonSMD distills the CheMeleon pretrained Directed Message Passing Neural Network (DMPNN) into a SCORE-style...

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    PDB reaches a quarter of a million structures

    The Protein Data Bank is an invaluable resource for protein structural information. As well as being a resource used by structural biologists, medicinal chemists and...

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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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