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News & Updates 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... CalcArea =Overview= This code will calculate the area of a given selection. If you have a bunch of disparate selections, or one selection made up of various objects then you can use this to find the area. The Code def calcArea(sel, ASA=0, density=3, quiet=1): """ DESCRIPTION Calculate the area of an object or selection (as if it were one complete object). ARGUMENTS sel = string: atom selection ASA = 0/1: solvent excluded or solvent accessible surface area density = int: sampling quality {default: 3} """ tName = "__temp__for__doArea__" cmd.create(tName, sel) cmd.flag("ignore", tName, "clear") cmd.set("dot_solvent", int(ASA), tName) cmd.set("dot_density", int(density), tName) theArea = cmd.get_area(tName) cmd.delete(tName) if not int(quiet): print 'Area (solvent %s): %.3f Angstroms^2' % (['excluded', 'accessible'][int(ASA)], theArea) return theArea cmd.extend('calcArea', calcArea) See Also Get_Area Set Flag Create ..→

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