Recently there have been two papers asking whether cheminformatics or virtual screening in general, have really helped drug discovery, in terms of lead discovery. The first paper from Muchmore et al focuses on the utility of various cheminformatics tools in drug discovery. Their report is retrospective in nature where they note that while much research […]
CDKDescUI Updates – DnD & Batch Mode
I’ve put out an updated version (1.0.1) of the CDK descriptor calculator that now supports drag ‘n drop of the input file – just drag an appropriate file onto the UI and the input file text field should be automatically populated. In addition, all file dialogs let OS X users specify a file name manually. […]
CDKDescUI Update
I’ve put out a new version (0.98) of the CDK descriptor calculator interface which uses the latest CDK master and also updates the save dialog for the descriptor selections to let the user specify a file name.
R-group support in the CDK
Mark Rijnbeek recently implemented support for R-group queries and reading/writing of the MDL RGFile format. Egon just committed to master. Very cool functionality and now we (somebody?) can consider implementing support for Markush structure enumeration, filtering etc.
Another ACS Done
Finally back home from another ACS National Meeting, this time in San Francisco. While the location is certainly an attraction, there was some pretty nice talks and symposia in the CINF division such as the Visualization of Chemical Data, Metabolomics and Materials Informatics. Credit for these (and all the other) symposia go to the organizers […]