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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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Vortex script to export multiple workspaces to individual sdf files.

19 November 202419 November 2024 chris

Sometimes when I’m comparing multiple datasets I end up with 10-20 different Vortex workspaces, for example if I’m comparing commercial screening collections from different vendors.

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Vortex script for Analysis of Categories

29 October 202429 October 2024 chris

I published a page describing a Vortex script for category analysis that I wrote a while back but I thought I’d mention it because I’m

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Generating IUPAC names for molecules

11 March 202326 October 2023 chris

I was recently asked if I could generate IUPAC names for a series of molecules for a patent filing. There are many chemical drawing packages

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A collection of Vortex scripts to aid cluster analysis

11 March 202310 April 2023 chris

Exploration and sorting large datasets of molecules often involves the use of clustering techniques to group together molecules with similar properties. It can be used

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A Vortex script to calculate the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) SCORE

11 March 20234 January 2024 chris

A recent publication described “The Blood–Brain Barrier (BBB) Score” DOI a scoring function to determine the likelihood of a molecule being brain penetrant. The blood–brain barrier (BBB)

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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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Vortex script to count Identical structures in two datasets

11 March 202315 April 2023 chris

Sometimes I have two datasets and I just want to know the overlap of identical structures. This script counts the number of identical structures by

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A workflow for docking/virtual screening 2

11 March 20234 February 2026 chris

In the previous workflow I described docking a set of ligands with known activity into a target protein, in this workflow we will be using a set

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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...

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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...

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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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