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Optimize

Introduction

Type	PyMOL Plugin
Download	plugins/optimize.py
Author(s)	Osvaldo Martin
License	MIT
	This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo

Optimize provides a PyMOL graphical interface to some of the molecular mechanics features available in openbabel, allowing the user to optimize (minimize) the energy of any molecule uploaded on PyMOL.

Installation

The plugin can be downloaded through the project Pymol-script-repo.

Optimize needs OpenBabel (and OpenBabel Python bindings) to be installed on your computer (see instructions here).

Note to Windows users: If you are using a 64-bit Windows, please install OpenBabel 64-bit from here

Usage

The plugin can be accessed using a graphic user interface (see figure 0) or from the PyMOL`s terminal. There are 5 types of optimization routines available now, 2 local and 3 global optimization routines.

== Local ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.