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News & Updates Official Release [AxPyMOL, and JyMO v1.7 have all been released] today, January 14, 2014. New Plugin Bondpack is a 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. New Plugin GROMACS_Plugin is a new plugin that ties together PyMOL and GROMACS. New Software CMPyMOL is a software that interactively visualizes 2D contact maps of proteins in PyMOL. New Script cgo_arrow draws an arrow between two picked atoms. Tips & Tricks Instructions for generating movie PDFs using .mpg movies from PyMOL. Older News See Older News.

Did you know... DrawGridBox Type Python Script Download drawgridbox.py Author(s) Cunliang Geng License BSD-2-Clause This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo This script adds the drawgridbox command, which draw grid boxes around a selection. Usage drawgridbox [ selection, [nx, [ny, [nz, [padding, [lw, [r, [g, [b]]]]]]]]] Prameters selection = str: atom selection {default: all} nx = int: number of grids on axis X {default: 10} ny = int: number of grids on axis Y {default: 10} nz = int: number of grids on axis Z {default: 10} padding = float: default 0.0 lw = float: line width {default: 2.0} r = float: red color component, valid range is [0.0, 1.0] {default 1.0} g = float: green color component, valid range is [0.0, 1.0] {default 1.0} b = float: blue color component, valid range is [0.0, 1.0] {default 1.0} Examples <source lang="python"> load drawgridbox.py fetch 1cbh show surface drawgridbox 1cbh, nx=5, ny=5, nz=5, lw=1, g=0, ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.