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News & Updates Official Release [AxPyMOL, and JyMO v1.7 have all been released] today, January 14, 2014. New Plugin Bondpack is a 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. New Plugin GROMACS_Plugin is a new plugin that ties together PyMOL and GROMACS. New Software CMPyMOL is a software that interactively visualizes 2D contact maps of proteins in PyMOL. New Script cgo_arrow draws an arrow between two picked atoms. Tips & Tricks Instructions for generating movie PDFs using .mpg movies from PyMOL. Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Pairwise distances Introduction Given any two selections, this script calculates and returns the pairwise distances between all atoms that fall within a defined distance. Can be used to measure distances within the same chain, between different chains or different objects. Distances can be restricted to sidechain atoms only and the outputs either displayed on screen or printed on file. Usage pairwise_dist sel1, sel2, max_dist, [output=S/P/N, [sidechain=N/Y, [show=Y/N]]] Required Arguments sel1 = first selection sel2 = second selection max_dist = max distance in Angstroms Optional Arguments output = accepts Screen/Print/None (default N) sidechain = limits (Y) results to sidechain atoms (default N) show = shows (Y) individual ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.