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News & Updates 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... Color h = Overview = This script colors the selection passed in based on the hydrophobicity scale as defined by: Source: http://us.expasy.org/tools/pscale/Hphob.Eisenberg.html Amino acid scale: Normalized consensus hydrophobicity scale Author(s): Eisenberg D., Schwarz E., Komarony M., Wall R. Reference: J. Mol. Biol. 179:125-142 (1984) Or check out hydrophobicity coloring, with rTools from Kristian Rother. http://www.rubor.de/pymol_extensions_de.html The Code <source lang="python"> color_h ------- PyMOL command to color protein molecules according to the Eisenberg hydrophobicity scale Source: http://us.expasy.org/tools/pscale/Hphob.Eisenberg.html Amino acid scale: Normalized consensus hydrophobicity scale Author(s): Eisenberg D., Schwarz E., Komarony M., Wall R. Reference: J. Mol. Biol. 179:125-142 (1984) Amino acid scale values: Ala: 0.620 Arg: -2.530 Asn: -0.780 Asp: -0.900 Cys: 0.290 Gln: -0.850 Glu: -0.740 Gly: 0.480 His: -0.400 Ile: 1.380 Leu: 1.060 Lys: -1.500 Met: ..→

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