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Alvascience Tools Now Fully Optimized for Apple Silicon

15 January 202515 January 2025 chris

Whilst Apple’s emulation later Rosetta2 that allows X86_64 applications to run on Apple Silicon this is not ideal especially for computationally intensive tasks. The latest

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RSC CICAG Distillate (formerly Newsletter) now available

15 January 202515 January 2025 chris

The CICAG Newsletter, which had its origins in the 1990s (when CICAG was two groups, the ‘Chemical Information Group’ and the ‘Computer Applications Subject Group’).

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STOUT V2.0: SMILES to IUPAC name conversion using transformer models

31 December 202431 December 2024 chris

An interesting publication, using the IUPAC rules for naming compounds can be a challenge for for complex systems. This paper describes a transformer-based model https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-024-00941-x

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AlvaDesc updated

12 December 202412 December 2024 chris

AlvaDesc v3.0.0 has been updated, it has a few new features but for Mac users it is now fully compatible with Apple Silicon!! AlvaDesc is

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ShEPhERD: Shape, Electrostatics, and Pharmacophore Explicit Representation Diffusion

23 November 202423 November 2024 chris

A really interesting preprint caught my attention from Connor Coley’s group at MIT. ShEPhERD diffusing shape, electrostatics, and pharmacophores for bioisosteric drug design https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04130v1 …

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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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Using lwreg with the RDKit cartridge

31 October 202431 October 2024 chris

Fabulous blog post from Greg Landrum, Includes a tutorial on installing PostgreSQL and the cartridge with conda. This post shows how to use the RDKit

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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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Cambridge Cheminformatics Network Meeting

23 October 202423 October 2024 chris

The next Meeting: 13 November 2024, 4-5.30pm UK time, Hybrid (at the CCDC/via Zoom) full details here. Programme My Learnings From Starting Standigm, a Leading

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Feedback from 7th Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry Conference

22 October 202422 October 2024 chris

We have just got the results of the feedback from the 7th RSC-CICAG / RSC-BMCS Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry held at Churchill College in September.

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    dock-postprocess

    This looks very useful. dock-postprocess is an open-source structure-based drug design toolkit for standardizing docking results and carrying them through restrained OpenMM minimization, pose QC, protein-ligand...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/09/07/dock-postprocess/
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    Updated Mac mini and Mac Studio

    Apple have announced new Mac mini and Mac Studio machines. Mac mini has either M5 Pro chip or M6 chip M5 Pro 15‑core CPU with 5 super cores and 10 performance...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/08/26/updated-mac-mini-and-mac-studio/
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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...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/08/25/installing-the-openadmet-pxr-anvil-prediction/
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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,...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/08/23/some-conferences-and-meetings-that-might-be-of-interest/

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