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News & Updates 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... Cache Cache manages storage of precomputed results, such as molecular surfaces. Usage cache action [, scenes [, state ]] where, the arguments are: action string: enable, disable, read_only, clear, or optimize scenes string: a space-separated list of scene names (default: ) state integer: state index (default: -1) Examples cache enable cache optimize cache optimize, F1 F2 F5 Notes "cache optimize" will iterate through the list of scenes provided (or all defined scenes), compute any missing surfaces, and store them in the cache for later reuse. API cmd.cache(string action, string scenes, int state, int quiet)

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