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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7.4 have all been released on December 2, 2014. New Plugin PyANM is a new plugin for easier Anisotropic Network Model (ANM) building and visualising in PyMOL. 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 v1.7.2 have all been released on August 4, 2014. Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7 have all been released today, January 14, 2014. 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. 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... Monitor file continuously This script can be used to continuously check the modification timestamp on a file (any format, although this example assumes it's a PDB file), and re-loads it whenever the timestamp changes. As written it is intended to be started from the command line, but this is not a requirement. The Code <source lang="python"> from pymol import cmd import threading import time import os import sys class pymol_file_monitor (object) : def __init__ (self, file_name, time_wait=1) : # time in seconds between mtime check self.file_name = file_name self.time_wait = time_wait self.watch = True # this can be toggled elsewhere to stop updating self.mtime = 0 t = threading.Thread(target=self.check_file) t.setDaemon(1) t.start() print "Watching file %s" % file_name def check_file (self) : while (self.watch) : if (os.path.exists(self.file_name)) : print "checking..." mtime = os.path.getmtime(self.file_name) if (mtime > self.mtime) : self.mtime = mtime ..→

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