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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.3 has been released on February 11, 2019. POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 New Plugin ProBiS H2O is a new plugin for identification of conserved waters in protein structures. 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... CBC Util.cbc stands for (the utilities library's) color by chain. This simply colors molecules by their chains, as the name suggests. The affects of CBC are shown in the following images. Molecule loaded util.cbc command issued. Each chain gets its own color. Usage # simple command util.cbc selection, first_color, quiet # api usage util.cbc(selection='(all)',first_color=7,quiet=1,legacy=0,_self=cmd) where selection defaults to 'all', first_color defaults to 7, quiet defaults to 1 Example # color everything by chain util.cbc See Also Chainbow Util.rainbow util.cba

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.