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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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    Avogadro 2.0.0 released

    Avogadro is a free and open source molecular editor and visualization tool. The new release of Avogadro 2, is a major update, and includes major changes, a revised interface,...
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    Looking at mlxmolkit — GPU-accelerated molecular clustering on Apple Silicon

    I've written several posts on the various options for clustering molecules...

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    RSC CICAG Chemical Structure Representations Meeting 2026 

    I've just signed up for the meeting, hope to see you there at Burlington House, London, UK Wednesday 8th April 2026 A one-day conference...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/04/01/rsc-cicag-chemical-structure-representations-meeting-2026-2/
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    Mole2D molecule drawing package

    Mole2D is a lightweight molecule drawing package written in Python and PyQt6. All code is on GitHub https://github.com/sfmlab/mole2d and it requires RDKit and PyQt6.. PubChem lookup...

    https://macinchem.org/2026/03/31/mole2d-molecule-drawing-package/
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    RDKit Updated

    An update to RDKit has been released 2026_03_1 (Q1 2026). Highlights A significant number of known SMILES canonicalization problems were resolved. It's now possible to provide your own matching...

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