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News & Updates Official Release http://pymol.org 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... Align Two proteins after structure alignment align performs a sequence alignment followed by a structural superposition, and then carries out zero or more cycles of refinement in order to reject structural outliers found during the fit. align does a good job on proteins with decent sequence similarity (identity >30%). For comparing proteins with lower sequence identity, the super and cealign commands perform better. Usage align mobile, target [, cutoff [, cycles [, gap [, extend [, max_gap [, object [, matrix [, mobile_state [, target_state [, quiet [, max_skip [, transform [, reset ]]]]]]]]]]]]] Arguments mobile = string: atom selection of mobile object target = string: atom selection of target object cutoff = float: outlier rejection cutoff in RMS {default: 2.0} cycles = int: maximum number of outlier rejection cycles {default: 5} gap, extend, max_gap: sequence alignment parameters object = ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.