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Vortex script interacting with a web service

11 March 202325 April 2023 chris

In previous scripts we have generated data using a local Java program, C program, PERL script, and SVL program. In this tutorial rather than have

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Vortex Script to add 2D depiction of 3D structures

11 March 20237 May 2023 chris

This script is no longer needed since you can now add SMILES from the “Calculate Properties” option from the Tools menu. However, it is a

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Vortex script to Calculate molecular properties using MayaChemTools

11 March 202318 May 2023 chris

In previous scripts I’ve shown how to use a couple of command line applications to calculate physicochemical properties. In this tutorial we will use a

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ChemDoodle 5 Review

9 March 202311 May 2023 chris

I first became aware of ChemDoodle several years ago when it was developed as an inexpensive chemical drawing package, over the years it has been refined and

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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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    Quick Look Doctor

    In the review of Burette a Quick Look extension for chemical filetypes I wrote:- There are issues with this system, the same file type e.g. .sdf can be opened...
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    Raymol, Molecular visualisation for Mac, Ipad, iPhone

    One of the advantages of Apple Silicon is we are starting to see applications that take advantage of the new hardware. Raymol is a free Metal-based...
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    ProLIF updated

    ProLIF (Protein-Ligand Interaction Fingerprints) is a tool designed to generate interaction fingerprints for complexes made of ligands, protein, DNA or RNA molecules extracted from molecular dynamics trajectories, docking...

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    The website for RSC CICAG Quantum Computing in Chemistry: Current Capabilities and the Road to Utility at Burlington House, London, UK on 19th November has been updated. Includes links for abstract submission, registration and bursaries. registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...
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    Review of Burrete

    How often have you found a structure file on your desktop and wondered what it contained? You could open it in the relevant software application but one of the...
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