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News & Updates Schrodinger Buys PyMOL Schrodinger has purchased PyMOL. Development, support and open-source fun to continue! Read about the sale. User Movie One of our users has posted another interesting movie, images from which were created with PyMOL. New setting surface_cavity_mode to change how PyMOL displays cavities. Search fixed. Thanks to a eagle-eyed user, our search has been fixed. Please let us know if you have any search-related problems. New Command Cache—stores information on structures, so we don't have to recompute them. Warren News about Warren DeLano's passing may be read on Warren's memorial page. Setting Fetch_Path—Sets the default path for the fetch command. New Script SelInside—Creates a custom selection of all atoms spatially inside some user-defined box. New Script ContactsNCONT—The script selects residues and atoms from the list of the contacts found by NCONT from CCP4 Program Suite Fun PCR Rap video made with PyMOL (YouTube). PyMOLWiki Reformatted Main Page. Some delays might occur from resizing images, but that should go away once the images are cached. PyMOLWiki New — Search the PyMOLWiki via GoogleSearch PyMOL PyMOL is known to work under Mac OS X 10+ (Snow Leopard) using the new Fink and incentive builds. See Installing PyMOL under Fink. PyMOL PyMOL now has a Set command for basic settings, and a Set_bond command for bond-only settings.

Did you know... RUCAP UM-5 ==RUCAP UM-5 tracker== RUCAP UM-5 tracker is a wireless joystick for view control in PyMol. The code based on project ImmersiveViz. The script, which is reproduced below, transmits data to ImmersiveViz. ImmersiveViz runs on top of PyMol and adjusts the PyMol screen view in accordance with the position of your eyes in the space in front of the monitor. Our system contains a head tracking thread which communicates ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.