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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... Draw Protein Dimensions Type Python Script Download Draw_Protein_Dimensions.py Author(s) Pablo Guardado Calvo License This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo This script will draw the dimensions of a protein based on an Inertia Axis Aligned Bounding Box (IABB). The idea behind this script is to calculate an approximate minimal bounding box (MBB) to extract the cell dimensions of a protein. To calculate the MBB is not trivial and usually the Axis Aligned Bounding Box (AABB) does not show up the real dimensions of the protein. This script calculates the inertia tensor of the object, extract the eigenvectors and use them to rotate the molecule (using as rotation matrix the transpose of the eigenvector matrix). The result is a molecule oriented with the inertia axis aligned with the cartesian axis. A new Bounding Box is calculated, which is called Inertia Axis Aligned Bounding Box (IABB), with a volume always lower than the AABB volume, and in many cases may correspond with the MBB. As always with these type of things, you have to use at your own ..→

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