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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 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... Color Objects Type Python Script Download Author(s) Gareth Stockwell License <source lang="python"> Colour by object from pymol import cmd def color_obj(rainbow=0): """ AUTHOR Gareth Stockwell USAGE color_obj(rainbow=0) This function colours each object currently in the PyMOL heirarchy with a different colour. Colours used are either the 22 named colours used by PyMOL (in which case the 23rd object, if it exists, gets the same colour as the first), or are the colours of the rainbow SEE ALSO util.color_objs() """ # Process arguments rainbow = int(rainbow) # Get names of all PyMOL objects obj_list = cmd.get_names('objects') if rainbow: print "\nColouring objects as rainbow\n" nobj = len(obj_list) # Create colours starting ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.