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News & Updates New Plugin PyANM is a new plugin for easier Anisotropic Network Model (ANM) building and visualising in PyMOL. 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 v1.7.2 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... Window window controls the visibility of PyMOL's output window Some actions (maximize, focus, defocus) are not consistent across operating systems. Non-functional in PyMOL 2.0, will be available again in 2.1 Usage window [ action [, ... ]] Actions Hide the window (Warning: might make the window inaccessible. Intended for programmed automation): window hide Show the window (reverse of hide): window show Place the window at x, y screen coordinates: window position, x, y Resize the window: window size, width, height Place and resize in a single operation: window box, x, y, width, height If any window corner is not on the visible screen, move the window and if necessary, resize (shrink) to screen dimensions: window fit Maximize the window: window maximize Give the OpenGL window focus: window focus Example Place in upper left corner and resize to 1000x500 window box, 0, 0, 1000, 500 See Also full_screen viewport -W, -H, -X, -Y Command Line Options ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.