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Cambridge Cheminformatics Network Meeting 19 Feb 2025

7 February 20257 February 2025 chris

The next Cambridge Cheminformatics Network meeting is on Feb 19th at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), it will start at 4 pm and finish

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Looking at TabPFN

6 February 202517 February 2025 chris

TabPFN is a foundation model  trained on around 130,000,000 synthetically generated datasets that mimic “real world” tabular data. These datasets sampled dataset size and number

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TabPFN on Apple Silicon

31 January 202531 January 2025 chris

A recent paper published in Nature caught my eye, Accurate predictions on small data with a tabular foundation model by Hollmann et al., Here we present

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Conformational Design in Drug Discovery

24 January 202524 January 2025 chris

BMCS are hosting an exciting “Conformational Design in Drug Discovery” conference at the AstraZeneca DISC in Cambridge, UK on March 3, 2025. Abstract submission deadline

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Structure-aware generative molecular design: from 2D or 3D?

20 January 202520 January 2025 chris

A very nice review of generative models for molecular design from Morgan Thomas. https://cheminformantics.blogspot.com/2024/12/structure-aware-generative-molecular.html Includes Jupyter notebooks for data and analysis.

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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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    Cambridge Cheminformatics Network meeting

    The next Cambridge Cheminformatics Network Meeting is 11 November 2026, 4pm UK time at Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Cambridge, UK and Online (Hybrid...
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    ChemDraft and open-source chemical drawing package

    A reader recently highlighted ChemDraft (https://chemdraft.ai). A lightweight, open-source (Apache-2.0) chemical drawing app for macOS and Windows. It is...
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    A couple of interesting posts

    I'm seeing an increasing number of useful utilities being developed using AI coding tools NISPO NISPO is an open-source, RDKit-based Python package for generating IUPAC names of molecules....

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    Burette Updated

    Burette is a macOS desktop app and Quick Look extension for molecular previews: Mol* 3D, xyzrender SVG, and RDKit grids. There is a review of Burette here it can...
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    Avogadro Updated

    Avogadro is an advanced open source molecular editor and visualization tool. Download and installation instructions are here...
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