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News & Updates Official Release http://pymol.org 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... Uniprot features Type Python Module Download uniprot_features.py Author(s) Thomas Holder License BSD-2-Clause This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo uniprot_features fetches the sequence annotation (features) from uniprot.org and create named selections for each feature. Requires residue numbering (resi) to match uniprot sequence! Usage uniprot_features uniprot_id [, selection [, withss [, prefix ]]] Example Show the active site of human pepsin A: fetch 1flh, async=0 # fix residue numbering to match uniprot sequence alter all, resi=resv+62 # create selections uniprot_features PEPA4_HUMAN # show sticks for active site as cartoon set cartoon_side_chain_helper show sticks, feature_active_site zoom feature_active_site See also select_sites

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.