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News & Updates Official Release [AxPyMOL, and JyMO v1.7 have all been released] today, January 14, 2014. New Plugin Bondpack is a 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. New Plugin GROMACS_Plugin is a new plugin that ties together PyMOL and GROMACS. New Software CMPyMOL is a software that interactively visualizes 2D contact maps of proteins in PyMOL. New Script cgo_arrow draws an arrow between two picked atoms. Tips & Tricks Instructions for generating movie PDFs using .mpg movies from PyMOL. Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Slerpy = Manual for Slerpy.py = An extension to pymol that creates a moderately easy to use environment for doing keyframe animation. General Use At the pymol command line type: import slerpy This will load the extended commands. All commands in slerpy begin with the letter s. Pymol's tab autocomplete feature will work on the additional commands. Important concepts The main function of slerpy is to record a series of pymol views. A movie can then be created by interpolating between these views. A pymol view consists mostly of the camera orientation (that is, the orientation of the viewers eye with respect to the molecule). It also includes information about the clipping planes. It is important to realize that most slerpy commands act on the "current" view. You can navigate among views by using the sn, sp, and sgo commands. If you've changed the view around with the mouse or you just want to know the number of the current view you can get back to the current view with the sc command. Pymol views do not contain ..→

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