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StarDrop Updated

7 March 20235 May 2023 chris

StarDrop 7.4. This latest release contains several new features. https://optibrium.com/downloads/StarDrop%207.4%20Quick%20Start%20Guide.pdf Core Application​: * Added the ability to colour StarDrop data sets based on property values

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Vortex script using Openbabel for similarity searching

6 March 202315 May 2023 chris

An earlier script showed how to calculate molecular similarity between the first molecule in the file and all the other molecules using OpenBabel as shown

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Vortex script using MOE to calculate properties

6 March 202321 June 2023 chris

MOE from Chemical Computing Group is probably best known as a graphical user interface to a suite of computational chemistry tools, whilst this is indubitably the means

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Vortex script to analyze categories

5 March 202312 April 2023 chris

I often need to tag individual molecules within a dataset with a specific property, perhaps the results of clustering algorithms, the results of PAINS filtering, or Liver

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Options for Clustering large datasets of Molecules

5 March 202310 April 2025 chris

Clustering is an invaluable cheminformatics technique for subdividing a typically large compound collection into small groups of similar compounds. One of the advantages is that

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Scripting Vortex and OpenBabel

4 March 202312 April 2023 chris

I’m finding that I using Vortex more and more in my day job, it is an excellent application for displaying and exploring large or complex

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A Review of DataWarrior

21 February 202321 February 2023 chris

DataWarrior is a data analysis tool that understands chemistry, it provides an efficient way to search, sort and analyse structure-activity data. DataWarrior was developed at Actelion

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A review of alvaDesc

21 February 202311 May 2023 chris

alvaDesc is a desktop tool for the calculation of a wide range of molecular descriptors and a number of molecular fingerprints from https://www.alvascience.com. alvaDesc can be

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Vortex script to flag duplicates

18 February 202312 April 2023 chris

When working with multiple data sets of molecules, particularly if combining them from multiple sources, one of the most common tasks is removal of duplicates.

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A review of Vortex

18 February 202312 March 2023 chris

Whilst the Mac has an increasing share of the Biology or Physics desktop, expansion in Chemistry has been limited due to the availability of key

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    September Meetings

    If you are coming to the 9th RSC-CICAG / RSC-BMCS Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry meeting in Cambridge 2-4 September 2026. You might also be interested in the Cambridge Cheminformatics...

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    OpenBind’s First Data and Model Release

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    nanoFold a Protein Folding Data-Efficiency Competition

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    PyChem-Pro

    I've just added PyChem-Pro to the list of cheminformatics toolkits https://macinchem.org/2023/02/17/open-source-cheminformatics-toolkits/ PyChem is a desktop chemistry application and Python library that combines molecular...

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