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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.4 has been released on May 20, 2020. Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins Official Release PyMOL v2.3 has been released on February 11, 2019. POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 New Plugin ProBiS H2O is a new plugin for identification of conserved waters in protein structures. Selection keywords New polymer.protein and polymer.nucleic selection keywords. Thanks everyone who participated in the poll! Plugin Update MOLE 2.5 is an updated version of channel analysis software in PyMOL New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Plugins Tutorial This tutorial is about writing your own plugin for PyMOL 2.x. See the plugins page for how to install and use exisiting plugins. Writing Plugins: Learn By Example This tutorial shows how to write a PyMOL plugin with PyQt. The full source of the demo plugin is available on github. The demo plugin adds a dialog to render images at a custom resolution. Plugin Files We will create a plugin which consists of multiple files inside a directory: pymol2-demo-plugin/ ├── demowidget.ui └── __init__.py (defines "__init_plugin__(app=None)" function) Registering your Plugin First you must add your plugin to the Plugins menu. This is done in the __init_plugin__ function of your plugin. A callback (here: run_plugin_gui) is added. <source lang="python"> file pymol2-demo-plugin/__init__.py def __init_plugin__(app=None): from ..→

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