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Vortex script using BioTransformer

22 February 202622 February 2026 chris

Prediction of the metabolism of small molecules is very challenging and so having a variety of different tools is always useful. I’ve previously written Vortex

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PROTAC-Splitter: A Machine Learning Framework for Automated Identification of PROTAC Substructures

11 February 202614 February 2026 chris

PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs) technology provides an alternative to module biological function by specially using the ubiquitin proteasome system to induce degradation of the target

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Storing Vortex scripts outside the Vortex file system

28 January 202628 January 2026 chris

At least on a Mac the default place to store Vortex scripts is in the vortex folder ~/vortex/scripts Any folder/scripts you put in the vortex/scripts

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Vortex script for Hit expansion

9 December 20259 December 2025 chris

One of the frequent situations after running a screen is you have a list of hits and you want to select related analogues to explore

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Selecting random clusters from a large dataset in Vortex

18 July 2025 chris

When making selections from large datasets it is worth mentioning that as datasets get larger a simple random selection is often the best (and quickest)

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Vortex script to change display of workspace

18 May 20255 June 2025 chris

Sometimes when you import a dataset into a Vortex workspace the default display can be not ideal. For example I imported this CDK7 dataset from

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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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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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Using DILIpred

2 March 2025 chris

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a significant concern in drug discovery, in particular because it might only be observed late in large clinical studies, after

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    mlxmolkit — GPU-accelerated molecular clustering on Apple Silicon

    Recently a guest post from NVIDIA described GPU-Accelerated Clustering with nvMolKit that uses CUDA. A recent post no...

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    Molecular Docking with Open Access Software

    In 2020 as a result of lockdown I was asked to help create a course for MRes students as an introduction to computer-aided drug design. [DOI] This work lead...
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    RSC CICAG Chemical Structure Representation

    AI/ML have reignited our thoughts on how we represent chemical structures and so it is very timely that we have a conference on Structural Representation. Registration...
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    MOE now runs on macOS Tahoe!

    Just got this message. We're happy to announce the release of macOS-native MOE 2024.0604 for macOS Tahoe, also compatible with Big Sur and later versions (minimum version 11.5). The...

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    I'm in London for the RSC BMCS committee meeting. Looking around Burlington House I'm reminded what a great venue this is for scientific meetings. The next one I'll be at is Analyticode 2006 on 16 March 2026 www.rsc.org/events/detai.... Still time to register.

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