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News & Updates PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship Schrödinger is now accepting applications for the PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program! Details on http://pymol.org/fellowship Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7.2 have all been released on August 4, 2014. Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7 have all been released today, January 14, 2014. New Plugin Bondpack is 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... Fetch Fetch retrieves a protein structure from the PDB and loads it into PyMOL. The PDB file is saved in fetch_path, which defaults to the current working directory for PyMOL. To download a so-called biological assembly or biological unit, use the assembly setting or use type=pdb1, type=pdb2 and so on. ChangeLog Changed in PyMOL 2.3.0: Default async=0 New in PyMOL 1.8.6: Support type=mmtf and fetch_type_default setting Changed in PyMOL 1.8.0: Default type=cif New in PyMOL 1.8.0: Support type=cc to download a chemical component by 3-letter code New in PyMOL 1.7.4: Support type=cif New in PyMOL 1.7.2: Support type=emd to download maps from EMDataBank New in PyMOL 1.7.0: Support type=cid and type=sid to download from PubChem New in PyMOL 1.6.0: Support 5 letter codes to download a single chain (4-letter pdb + ..→

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