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News & Updates New Plugin LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm. Official Release PyMOL v1.8.0 has been released on Nov 18, 2015. 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... Fetch Fetch retrieves a protein structure from the PDB and loads it into PyMOL. The PDB file is saved in fetch_path, which defaults to the current working directory for PyMOL. To download a so-called biological assembly or biological unit, use the assembly setting or use type=pdb1, type=pdb2 and so on. ChangeLog Changed in PyMOL 2.3.0: Default async=0 New in PyMOL 1.8.6: Support type=mmtf and fetch_type_default setting Changed in PyMOL 1.8.0: Default type=cif New in PyMOL 1.8.0: Support type=cc to download a chemical component by 3-letter code New in PyMOL 1.7.4: Support type=cif New in PyMOL 1.7.2: Support type=emd to download maps from EMDataBank New in PyMOL 1.7.0: Support type=cid and type=sid to download from PubChem New in PyMOL 1.6.0: Support 5 letter codes to download a single chain (4-letter pdb + ..→

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