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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.5 has been released on May 10, 2021. Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2022-2023 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 New Plugin PICv is a new plugin for clustering protein-protein interactions and visualization with available data from PDBe Selection keywords New polymer.protein and polymer.nucleic selection keywords. Thanks everyone who participated in the poll! Plugin Update MOLE 2.5 is an updated version of channel analysis software in PyMOL New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons Older News See Older News.

Did you know... BbPlane Type Python Module Download bbPlane.py Author(s) Jason Vertrees, Blaine Bell and Thomas Holder License MIT This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo This script will draw a CGO plane between the backbone atoms of two neighboring residues. This is to show the planarity of the atoms. The image style this is meant to represent can be found many places, like "Introduction to Protein Structure" by Branden and Tooze (2nd ed. pp. 8). Close up of planar atoms A few more Global view Examples # download the source and save as bbPlane.py run bbPlane.py fetch 1cll # make planes for residues 4-9 bbPlane i. 4-10

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