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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.2 has been released on April 20, 2016. New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons New Plugin LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm. Official Release PyMOL v1.8.0 has been released on Nov 18, 2015. 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 v1.7.6 have all been released on May 4, 2015. New Plugin PyANM is a new plugin for easier Anisotropic Network Model (ANM) building and visualising in PyMOL. 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. Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Get Color Indices get_color_indices in combination with get_color_tuple will retrieve the RGB values for colors. print cmd.get_color_indices() will retrieve the Pymol color names and corresponding internal color indices. The Pymol names can be used to designate color for objects, see Color. To retrieve a single index for a specific color name, use get_color_index instead. print cmd.get_color_tuple(index-number) will retrieve individual RGB components when index-number is replaced with one of the color indices from above. The color index, an integer, gets returned when color is returned while employing Iterate. You can thus use the get_color_tuple command above to convert that to RGB color values if you need to use the colors outside Pymol. Tangentially related is the fact you can name additional colors, set_color color-name, [r,b,g] will create a new color that will appear in the GUI list. From the open-source ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.