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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMO 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... LoadDir Load all files of the suffix suff from the directory dirName, where suff and dirName are function parameters. This script is superseded by the loadall command, which was added in PyMOL 1.7.2. Install copy the source below to the a file called "loadDir.pml" somewhere on your computer load the file with "run /your/path/toLoadDir/loadDir.pml" run loadDir. See examples below. Examples # load the script run ~/loadDir.pml # load all SD files from /tmp loadDir /tmp, sdf loadDir /tmp, .sdf loadDir /tmp, *.sdf # even stupid stuff works; hopefully as one would want. # load all PDBs from /tmp loadDir /tmp, foo.woo.pdb # load all the PDBs in all the directories under ./binders/ERK loadDir ./binders/ERK/*, .pdb # load the PDBs into groups: now we can load all the files in the tree under # ./ERK into the group "ERK" and the files from ./SYK into the group "SYK" loadDir ./binders/ERK/*, .pdb, group=ERKb loadDir ./binders/SYK/*, .pdb, group=SYKb == The Code ..→

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