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Using the Python 3 library FPsim2 for similarity searches

6 April 20236 April 2023 chris

FPsim2 is a new tool for fast similarity search on big compound datasets (>100 million) being developed at ChEMBL. It was developed as a Python3 library

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Jazzy a Python library to calculate a set of atomic/molecular descriptors

22 March 20231 April 2023 chris

Just spotted a very interesting paper “Fast calculation of hydrogen-bond strengths and free energy of hydration of small molecules”  DOI.  Jazzy is a Python library that

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Hints and Tutorials Vortex Scripts

Using JDBC Driver to access Athena from Vortex

11 March 202312 May 2023 chris

This tutorial was created by Jackson Pullman (jackson.pullman@yale.edu) Getting Started Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon

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Vortex script to determine the Amino Acids in a collection of peptides

11 March 202312 November 2024 chris

I’ve recently become interested the comparison of the amino amino-acid composition of peptides, to allow comparison of cyclic versus linear peptides, or brain penetrant verses

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Virtual screening/Docking workflow

11 March 20234 February 2026 chris

Whilst high-throughput screening (HTS) has been the starting point for many successful drug discovery programs the cost of screening, the lack of accessibility of a

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Downloading from PDB using Python

11 March 202312 April 2023 chris

The RCSB Protein Data Bank is an absolutely invaluable resource that provides archive-information about the 3D shapes of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies that helps scientists

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Vortex Dealing with Greek characters in column names

11 March 20238 June 2023 chris

Just a quick tip. Sometimes I have a column in a Vortex workspace that I want to access via script where the title is something

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Hints and Tutorials Vortex Scripts

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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Open Source Python Data Science Libraries

17 February 202329 January 2026 chris

When I wrote the article entitled A few thoughts on scientific software one of the responses I got was that people did not know about the existence

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Hints and Tutorials Jupyter Notebook

Jupyter Notebook for docking either locally or using Colab

17 February 202317 February 2023 chris

Here are two variations of a Jupyter Notebook to help with docking experiments. The first version runs locally and requires the user to install RDKit,

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    ChemDoodle 2D v12.11 Update Available

    Version 12.11.0 is a feature update for ChemDoodle 2D. Major features include a function to generate text descriptions of figures, a fully native file chooser, improved MRV file...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/06/19/chemdoodle-2d-v12-11-update-available/
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    molar_vis — a modern molecular viewer in pure Rust

    There are a number of molecular visualisation tools available (many are now showing their age), but this looks an interesting addition A...
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    UCSF ChimeraX version 1.12 has been released

    The latest upsdate of the popular Biomolecular visualisation tool ChimeraX has been releasded https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/download.html This update includes -...

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    PyChem-Pro

    I just stumbled across this when looking for something else. It looks very interesting A pure-Python desktop application and library for chemistry and cheminformatics — molecular visualization, SMILES parsing,...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/06/11/pychem-pro-2/
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