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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7.2 have all been released on August 4, 2014. Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL 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 By Mutations This script creates an alignment of two proteins and superimposes them. Aligned residues that are different in the two (i.e. mutations) are highlighted and colored according to their difference in the BLOSUM90 matrix. It is meant to be used for similar proteins, e.g. close homologs or point mutants, to visualize their differences. Example color_by_mutation protein1, protein2 Example: rat trypsin and cow trypsin colored by color_by_mutation. <source lang="python"> created by Christoph Malisi. Creates an alignment of two proteins and superimposes them. Aligned residues that are different in the two (i.e. mutations) are highlighted and colored according to their difference in the BLOSUM90 matrix. Is meant to be used for similar proteins, e.g. close homologs or point mutants, to visualize their differences. from pymol import cmd aa_3l = ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.