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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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Vortex script to export multiple workspaces to individual sdf files.

19 November 202419 November 2024 chris

Sometimes when I’m comparing multiple datasets I end up with 10-20 different Vortex workspaces, for example if I’m comparing commercial screening collections from different vendors.

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Using lwreg with the RDKit cartridge

31 October 202431 October 2024 chris

Fabulous blog post from Greg Landrum, Includes a tutorial on installing PostgreSQL and the cartridge with conda. This post shows how to use the RDKit

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Vortex script for Analysis of Categories

29 October 202429 October 2024 chris

I published a page describing a Vortex script for category analysis that I wrote a while back but I thought I’d mention it because I’m

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Cambridge Cheminformatics Network Meeting

23 October 202423 October 2024 chris

The next Meeting: 13 November 2024, 4-5.30pm UK time, Hybrid (at the CCDC/via Zoom) full details here. Programme My Learnings From Starting Standigm, a Leading

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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

    Lack of data has hampered the building of models to accurately predict binding affinity so I'm sure everyone is super excited to see the first tranche of data from...

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    Quantum Computing in Chemistry Conference

    RSC CICAG Quantum Computing in Chemistry: Current Capabilities and the Road to UtilityThursday 19th November 2026, Burlington House, London, UK...
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    nanoFold a Protein Folding Data-Efficiency Competition

    An interesting way to look for better biological foundation models. The core bet is simple: biological data is expensive. Text and image models...

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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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