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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.2 has been released on April 20, 2016. New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons New Plugin LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm. Official Release PyMOL v1.8.0 has been released on Nov 18, 2015. PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship Schrödinger is now accepting applications for the PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program! Details on http://pymol.org/fellowship Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7.6 have all been released on May 4, 2015. New Plugin PyANM is a new plugin for easier Anisotropic Network Model (ANM) building and visualising in PyMOL. New Plugin Bondpack is a collection of PyMOL plugins for easy visualization of atomic bonds. New Plugin MOLE 2.0 is a new plugin for rapid analysis of biomacromolecular channels in PyMOL. 3D using Geforce PyMOL can now be visualized in 3D using Nvidia GeForce video cards (series 400+) with 120Hz monitors and Nvidia 3D Vision, this was previously only possible with Quadro video cards. Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Grepset Type Python Script Download grepset.py Author(s) Ezequiel Panepucci License BSD This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo Included in psico This command or function is available from psico, which is a PyMOL extension. Module psico.helping Use this little script to explore PyMOL's myriad settings. Usefull for newbies and those with not so good memory skills... To use: put the script in a file called grepset.py from within PyMOL execute run grepset.py. If you have the Pymol-script library configured, then import grepset try it out, see examples below. Example 1: grepset light cartoon_highlight_color default dot_lighting on light [ -0.40000, -0.40000, -1.00000 ] mesh_lighting off two_sided_lighting off 5 settings matched Example 2: grepset trans cartoon_transparency 0.00000 ray_transparency_contrast 1.00000 ray_transparency_shadows 1 ray_transparency_spec_cut 0.90000 ray_transparency_specular 0.40000 sphere_transparency ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.