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Cheminformatics Microservice V3: a web portal for chemical structure manipulation and analysis

5 February 20265 February 2026 chris

There is an interesting paper in Journal of Cheminformatics  J Cheminform 17, 142 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-025-01094-1 Cheminformatics Microservice V3 aims to provide easily accessible and reproducible cheminformatics tools.

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Mychem a chemoinformatics extension for MySQL

9 February 20259 February 2025 chris

Mychem is a chemoinformatics extension for MySQL that provides a set of functions that handles chemical data stored in a database. Mychem is based on

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Comparing Version Numbers

10 April 202310 April 2023 chris

I’m in the process of updating iBabel and one of the things I’m adding is the option to use some of the newer tools now

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Vortex script using Using OpenBabel fastsearch

11 March 202321 May 2024 chris

One thing I’ve needed to do a couple of times recently is give an idea of how many similar compounds are available to the set

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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 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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    mlxmolkit updated

    mlxmolkit is a GPU-accelerated molecular toolkit using MLX on Apple Silicon, it is a port of nvMolKit that uses Cuda. It now includes AreaWhat it doesEntry pointConformersDrop-in for RDKit EmbedMolecules:...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/09/23/mlxmolkit-updated-2/
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    ChemDoodle Update

    ChemDoodle 2D has been updated. The main focus is expanded support for inorganic compounds and complexes, including haptic bonds and multi-center attachments, their use in formula and mass calculations,...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/09/20/chemdoodle-update/
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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...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/09/07/dock-postprocess/
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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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