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SureChEMBl update

4 May 2025 chris

If you have been trying to access patent data via SureChEMBL recently you will be very aware that the team have been struggling to provide

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Using JDBC with Vortex

24 April 202524 April 2025 chris

JDBC, which stands for Java Database Connectivity, is a Java API that allows Java applications to interact with relational databases. There are JDBC drivers for most

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Uniprot to PDB id Vortex script

13 April 202513 April 2025 chris

The previous scripts have allowed the user to get more information about a PDB entry and to import the ligand structures. This script allows the

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BitBirch update

10 April 202510 April 2025 chris

I’ve written a comparison of various clustering tools including BitBirch. A recent preprint [DOI] has illustrated BitBIRCH Clustering Refinement Strategies. In this Application Note we

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MayaChemTools Updated

9 April 202518 April 2025 chris

MayaChemTools is a growing collection of Perl and Python scripts, modules, and classes to support a variety of day-to-day computational discovery needs. The new release contained three new python

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Vortex script for getting PDB ligand structures

6 April 20256 April 2025 chris

The two previous vortex scripts used the PBD id to download information about a biomolecular structure structure from the Worldwide Protein Data Bank. The second

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Two Vortex scripts for interacting with PDB

5 April 20255 April 2025 chris

The Worldwide Protein Data Bank collects, organises and disseminates data on biological macromolecular structures. The wwPDB Partners are: PDBe, RCSB PDB, PDBj, BMRB, EMDB. Currently the PDB contains over

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Cheminformatics tools that work natively with Google tools such as Sheets and BigQuery

31 March 202531 March 2025 chris

Whilst there are a number of chemistry aware spreadsheets Vortex, Stardrop, Datawarrior, InstantJChem, molsoft etc. many people still use Excel or Google sheets. Vexo is

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 Cambridge Cheminformatics Meeting on 23 April 2025

31 March 202531 March 2025 chris

Programme A Day in the Life of a Chief Data Science Officer: Making Data-Driven Decisions in Drug Discovery Layla Hosseini-Gerami, Ignota Labs https://www.ignotalabs.ai Targeting the

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Checkmol

8 March 202525 March 2025 chris

Checkmol is a command-line utility program which reads molecular structure files in different formats and analyzes the input molecule for the presence of various functional groups

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