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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL, 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... Get Names get_names returns a list of object and/or selection names. PYMOL API cmd.get_names(type,enabled_only,selection) ARGUMENTS type : string determines the type of objects to be returned. It can take any of the following values: objects Structure objects selections All selection all Objects and Selections public_objects (default) public_selections public_nongroup_objects public_group_objects nongroup_objects group_objects enabled_only : boolean If 1, only enabled objects are returned. Default 0 (all objects) selection NOTES The default behavior is to return only object names. EXAMPLES Multiple alignments # structure align all proteins in PyMOL to the protein named "PROT". Effectively a # poor multiple method for multiple structure alignment. for x in cmd.get_names("all"): cealign( "PROT", x) Determine whether or not an object ..→

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