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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.2 has been released on April 20, 2016. New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons 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... Launching From a Script The recommended way to run PyMOL-Python scripts is by using PyMOL as the interpreter. This is supported by all versions of PyMOL, including the pre-compiled bundles provided by Schrödinger. Example from a shell: shell> pymol -cq script.py With arguments (sys.argv becomes ["script.py", "foo", "bar"]): shell> pymol -cq script.py -- foo bar Example from a running PyMOL instance: PyMOL> run script.py For advanced users, the following PyMOL versions also allow to run PyMOL from an existing Python process: PyMOL 2.0 based on Anaconda (using Anaconda's python, which is included in bundles provided by Schrödinger) Open-Source PyMOL Schrödinger-provided "Mac alternative X11-only build" of the 1.8.x series After importing the pymol module, PyMOL's event loop has to be started with a call to pymol.finish_launching() (not supported on macOS). Usage With PyMOL 2.1, calling any ..→

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