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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. 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... Process All Files In Directory =Explanation= For a given directory with PDB files in it, the following code will output, for each PDB, the bound disulfide bond lengths like this: 1alk.pdb A CYS 168 SG A CYS 178 SG 1.975 A CYS 286 SG A CYS 336 SG 1.995 B CYS 168 SG B CYS 178 SG 1.996 B CYS 286 SG B CYS 336 SG 2.032 1btu.pdb CYS 42 SG CYS 58 SG 2.039 CYS 136 SG CYS 201 SG 2.031 CYS 168 SG CYS 182 SG 2.001 ..→

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