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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.4 has been released on October 4, 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... PowerMate Dial OS X Link to W. G. Scott's web page (off site). Use of the script below is explained in that link. Briefly, the PowerMate driver must be installed and configured as explained in detail in that link before this script will work. Pymol lets you define some keys (the function keys, ALT-[A-Z,0-9], left, right, up, down, etc) as pythonic pymol commands, like those below. I chose 2 degree increments for rotation and 0.5 for translations because these values give a visually smooth response, but change this to suit your own taste. Type help set_key in pymol for more information. The code below dynamically assigns functions to the four programmed keys by running python scripts in pymol to reset the key bindings. Clicking the Powermate dial to activate the toggle function (assigned to F5) allows you to toggle cyclically through dial functionality options, thus giving you three sets of rotations and translations. In other words, turn the dial right or ..→

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