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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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    AlvaSketcher

    There a number of chemical drawing packages around that range from lightweight apps for providing structure input to database searches to large fully features packages designed to provide publication...
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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...

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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...

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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...

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