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News & Updates New Setup PyMOL-open-source-windows-setup v3.1 has been released on January 20, 2025. More information under Windows Install. New Plugin PySSA aims to combine PyMOL and ColabFold to enable the prediction and analysis of 3D protein structures for the scientific end-user. v1.0 has been released on July 10, 2024. Official Release PyMOL v3.0 has been released on March 12, 2024. New Plugin CavitOmiX calculate Catalophore™ cavities, predict protein structures with OpenFold by NVIDIA-BioNeMo, ESMFold and retrieve Alphafold models 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 fellowship 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... Rasmolify Here it is! Long awaited, less tested; Install Linux In your ~/.pymolrc set something like the following run ~/pymolscripts/rasmolify.py Finally, make a directory called ~/pymolscripts and copy the code below into a file called rasmolify.py - That should do the trick. You may also like to add a line that reads set virtual_trackball, off in your ~/.pymolrc Windows ??? Usage Think 'rasmol' Related http://arcib.dowling.edu/sbevsl/ TODO Check if a 'selection' exists, and limit commands to that selection (map the concept of a rasmol 'selection' onto the concept of a pymol selection). Implement 'scaling' units for display functions Fix the mouse behaviour? Add a rasmol GUI! Code <source lang="python"> This is just a quick hack. For something more meaty see; http://arcib.dowling.edu/sbevsl/ Version 0.0.00-000/1 Turn off the virtual_trackball cmd.set("virtual_trackball", "off") spacefill def spacefill(p1=): if(p1=='off'): ..→

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