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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... Get Coordinates I There are several ways to extract or load atomic coordinates in PyMOL using the python API. Extract coordinates using get_coords New in PyMOL 1.7.4. This is the fastest method to extract coordinates from a selection. It considers the object rotation matrix. xyz = cmd.get_coords('sele', 1) Extract coordinates using get_coordset New in PyMOL 1.7.4. Operates on the object-state level, not on selections. Does not consider the object rotation matrix. Retrieves coordinates in original order (e.g. PDB file atom order), not in sorted atom order. Faster than get_coords. xyz = cmd.get_coordset(objectname, 1) Extract coordinates using get_model Before 1.7.4, this was the fastest method to extract coordinates. It considers the object rotation matrix. xyz = cmd.get_model('sele', 1).get_coord_list() Extract coordinates using iterate_state This is much slower than the first ..→

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