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News & Updates 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 fellows announced for 2018-2019 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... Colorblindfriendly Type Python Script Download colorblindfriendly.py Author(s) Jared Sampson License MIT This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo Introduction Certain colors are indistinguishable to people with the various forms of color blindness, and therefore are better not used in figures intended for public viewing. This script generates a palette of named colors for PyMOL that are unambiguous both to colorblind and non-colorblind individuals. The colors listed here are defined according to recommendations found at J*FLY. This website is a good reference to consult when making all kinds of figures, not just those made using PyMOL. Colors These are the 0-255 RGB values from the J*FLY page that are used in the script, with the defined color names and alternate ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.