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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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Searching Sqlite database from Vortex

26 February 202527 February 2025 chris

In a previous post I illustrated how to download PubChem and create a local searchable database using a Jupyter notebook. I also included a vortex/python

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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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