Multi-threaded Database Access with Python

Pub3D contains about 17.3 million 3D structures for PubChem compounds, stored in a Postgres database. One of the things we wanted to do was 3D similarity searching and to achieve that we’ve been employing the Ballester and Graham-Richards method. In this post I’m going to talk about performance – how we went from a single […]

AJAX’ified Pub3D

Pub3D is a 3D version of PubChem, in which we have generated a single conformer for 99% of PubChem using the smi23d suite of programs. The structures are then stored in a PostgreSQL database along with their distance moment shape descriptors described by Ballester and Graham-Richards. This allows us to perform shape similarity queries against […]