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News & Updates New Plugin LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm. Official Release PyMOL v1.8.0 has been released on Nov 18, 2015. 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... ObjectFocus =Overview= A simple script to walk over objects in the object menu panel. The Code import pymol from pymol import cmd UP, DOWN = -1, 1 in_focus = 0 def object_focus(direction): """ A simple script that remaps the PgUp and PgDn keys to walk through objects in the object list. """ global in_focus, UP, DOWN cmd.wizard() names = cmd.get_names("public_objects") in_focus += direction if in_focus<0: in_focus = 0 if in_focus > len(names)-1: in_focus = len(names)-1 cur_obj = names[in_focus] cmd.orient(cur_obj,animate=1) cmd.wizard("message", "Object: %s" % (cur_obj)) cmd.set_key("PgUp", object_focus, [UP]) cmd.set_key("PgDn", object_focus, [DOWN])

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.