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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.4 has been released on October 4, 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... SaveGroup This script creates the command "saveGroup". saveGroup will save the specified group to disk as one file with all group objects in it, or as many files one pdb in each file. To save to one file just call saveGroup groupName to save to many files call saveGroup groupName, oneFile=False . The Code <source lang="python"> import pymol from pymol import cmd, stored def saveGroup(g, oneFile=None): """ Save all files inside group 'g' to either one file or a list of files PARAMS g name of the group to save oneFile if not specified or None, saves each protein in the group to its own file, if oneFile=True, then saves all the files in the group to just one file. RETURNS None """ oneFile = (oneFile!=None) if cmd.get_type(g) != "object:group": print "Error: please provide a group name to save." return stored.models = set() cmd.iterate(g, 'stored.models.add ..→

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