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Using t-SNE and Vortex to provide an interactive visualisation

4 March 20264 March 2026 chris

t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) is a statistical method for visualizing high-dimensional data by giving each datapoint a location in a two or three-dimensional map. Whilst there are

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CHEMBL2ML

28 February 202628 February 2026 chris

An interesting web app that fetches ChEMBL bioactivity data for a target (via UniProt ID), computes molecular descriptors, and trains a simple predictive model (regression, with

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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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Visual Studio Code extension that renders SMILES strings

30 January 202630 January 2026 chris

MolView – SMILES Preview is a Visual Studio Code extension that renders SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System) strings as molecular structure diagrams on

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Software sustainability fund

29 January 202629 January 2026 chris

A while back I wrote a post on the problems with maintaining scientific software, this seemed to strike a chord and I got a lot

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A Jupyter Notebook to access structures and data from the Idler master worksheet

26 January 202628 January 2026 chris

There was an interesting publication from the Todd group at UCL on Chemrxiv “Idler Compounds: A Simple Protocol for Openly Sharing Fridge Contents for Cross-Screening”

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Joining or Renewing RSC membership

19 November 202519 November 2025 chris

It is that time of the year when Royal Society of Chemistry membership forms arrive in the letterbox. Most people don’t join any of the

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nvMolKit: a core set of GPU-accelerated RDKit functions

11 September 202518 September 2025 chris

An interesting post from Nvidia. nvMolKit, is a standalone, GPU-accelerated library that delivers 1-4 orders of magnitude of acceleration across five key functions: Morgan Fingerprinting,

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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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Searching a local copy of PubChem

17 February 202524 February 2025 chris

PubChem is an invaluable source of information about 99 million molecules accessible via a website or programmatically. PubChem is an open chemistry database at the National Institutes

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    Using t-SNE to provide an interactive visualisation

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    SpaceLightN

    SpaceLightN is a command line tool from Prof. Rarey (University of Hamburg) for similarity-based virtual screening in large combinatorial fragment spaces. It utilizes well-known fingerprints methods such as the...

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    Apply to lead a strategic research lab dedicated to fundamental artificial intelligence (AI) development. 

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    Fortran on a Mac

    I've updated the Fortran on a Mac page https://macinchem.org/fortran-on-a-mac/ Now includes gcc-15.2-mx-bin.tar.gz, gfortran-15.2-mx-bin.tar.gz (gfortran only), updated Jan 2026 (Tahoe — Apple...

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    CHEMBL2ML

    An interesting web app that fetches ChEMBL bioactivity data for a target (via UniProt ID), computes molecular descriptors, and trains a simple predictive model (regression, with an optional classification fallback)....

    https://macinchem.org/2026/02/28/chembl2ml/

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