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News & Updates 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 v1.7.6 have all been released on May 4, 2015. New Plugin PyANM is a new plugin for easier Anisotropic Network Model (ANM) building and visualising in PyMOL. 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. Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Axes == Axes with text labels == # axes.py from pymol.cgo import * from pymol import cmd from pymol.vfont import plain # create the axes object, draw axes with cylinders coloured red, green, #blue for X, Y and Z obj = [ CYLINDER, 0., 0., 0., 10., 0., 0., 0.2, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0., CYLINDER, 0., 0., 0., 0., 10., 0., 0.2, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0., 1.0, 0., CYLINDER, 0., 0., 0., 0., 0., 10., 0.2, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0., 0.0, 1.0, ] # add labels to axes object (requires pymol version 0.8 or greater, I # believe cyl_text(obj,plain,[-5.,-5.,-1],'Origin',0.20,axes=[[3,0,0],[0,3,0],[0,0,3]]) cyl_text(obj,plain,[10.,0.,0.],'X',0.20,axes=[[3,0,0],[0,3,0],[0,0,3]]) cyl_text(obj,plain,[0.,10.,0.],'Y',0.20,axes=[[3,0,0],[0,3,0],[0,0,3]]) cyl_text(obj,plain,[0.,0.,10.],'Z',0.20,axes=[[3,0,0],[0,3,0],[0,0,3]]) # then we load it into PyMOL cmd.load_cgo(obj,'axes') Axes with nice cones This script draws a simple cartesian coordinate system. <source lang="python"> fro ..→

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