I’ve been working on the rcdk and rcdklibs R packages that integrate the CDK into the R environment. For the past year or two it’s been hosted on r-forge.r-project.org which has a nice feature of nightly builds of R packages. Unfortunately their version control system is Subversion. Having used Git for my other projects, this was […]
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.
Cheminformatics with Hadoop and EC2
In the last few posts I’ve described how I’ve gotten up to speed on developing Map/Reduce applications using the Hadoop framework. The nice thing is that I can set it all up and test it out on my laptop and then easily migrate the application to a large production cluster. Over the past few days […]