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News & Updates New Plugin PyANM is a new plugin for easier Anisotropic Network Model (ANM) building and visualising in PyMOL. 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 v1.7.2 have all been released on August 4, 2014. Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7 have all been released today, January 14, 2014. 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. 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... Symmetry Axis <source lang="python"> Pymol script copyright Matthew O'Meara and Xavier Ambroggio 2007 Last updated Nov 29, 2007 Draw an axis given a point and a direction. Optionally give color, length and width. Usage: from the pymol menu click file->run... then find this file. Then at the prompt, type draw_axis x,y,z, i,k,j where (x,y,z) is the point and (i,k,j) is the direction Also one can run the script as follows draw_axis x,y,z, i,k,j, length r,g,b, width, where (r,g,b) is the color for the line in red, green, colors, width is the thickness of the line and length is the length of the line. For a fun example of the script run from the command line after the script is loaded draw_axis_example from pymol.cgo import * # get constants from pymol import cmd import math class Counter: def __init__(self): self.state = 1 counter = Counter() def draw_axis(x=None, ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.