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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... 3Dstrut {|class = infobox |- !Type |Plugin |- !Download |https://github.com/raghuyennamalli/3Dstrut |- !Author |Tony Kamenick, Stuart Ballard |- !Other authors |George N Phillips Jr. |- !Other contributors |Shashank Ravichandran, Yatindrapravanan Narasimhan, Gautham Krishna, Ragothaman Yennamalli |} 3Dstrut is an external plugin for the molecular visualization program PyMOL. The plugin generates struts at optimal positions and thus enables 3D printing of any structure which can be visualized using PyMOL. This software is distributed freely for Windows and MacOS platforms. Website https://github.com/raghuyennamalli/3Dstrut Version history Version 2.0 Installation The following steps are applicable to both windows and MacOS systems I. Download the ‘.zip’ file and save it in your home directory. Once you unzip the file, you should see a directory named ‘3D_strut_plugin’ containing three files: __init__.py, struts.py, build_struts.py II. Open PyMOL and go to Plugin → Plugin ..→

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