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News & Updates New Setup PyMOL-open-source-windows-setup v3.1 has been released on January 20, 2025. More information under Windows Install. New Plugin PySSA aims to combine PyMOL and ColabFold to enable the prediction and analysis of 3D protein structures for the scientific end-user. v1.0 has been released on July 10, 2024. Official Release PyMOL v3.0 has been released on March 12, 2024. New Plugin CavitOmiX calculate Catalophore™ cavities, predict protein structures with OpenFold by NVIDIA-BioNeMo, ESMFold and retrieve Alphafold models Official Release PyMOL v2.5 has been released on May 10, 2021. Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins POSF New PyMOL fellowship announced for 2022-2023 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 New Plugin PICv is a new plugin for clustering protein-protein interactions and visualization with available data from PDBe Selection keywords New polymer.protein and polymer.nucleic selection keywords. Thanks everyone who participated in the poll! Plugin Update MOLE 2.5 is an updated version of channel analysis software in PyMOL New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons Older News See Older News.

Did you know... DivScore A quote from the page: The DivScore package is intended to be used with AMBER and DivCon for preprocessing biological structures (primarily proteins and small molecules) quick geometry optimization, charge calculation, creating job scripts and streamlining workflow within the PyMOL environment. This package was developed to aid my research and hence works within the confines of assumptions that were necessary for streamlining my workflow. However for those who have access to the AMBER and DivCon, it could potentially be useful since it combines the power of PyMOL with that of AMBER for molecular simulation and DivCon for Quantum Mechanics calculations on large biomolecular systems. An example of the capability of DivScore is that, it can perform a quick minimization of a ligand in the active site of a protein based on the AMBER force field and upload the resulting coordinates into PyMOL for visualization. More examples of things one could do will follow in the examples sections. Web link: ..→

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