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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... Pdbsurvey Hi everyone ! I have created a script because I was tired of browsing the pdb for endless searches of structures relevant to my field. This scripts takes as input a text file in which you copied your favourite keywords, and the number of days you want to search back (by default, it will look at the structures added the last 50 days). It generates a report text file that contains the pdb id and name of the relevant structures that have been recently added. All you need to do is add 'run pdbsurvey.py' to your startup file, and create a text file called 'keywords.txt' with your keywords separated by an end-of-line character. Then you're ready to go. Just hit 'pdbsurvey' from within your PyMol instance, and the program returns the report file. The pdb ftp server is updated weekly. <source lang="python"> from pymol import cmd def pdbsurvey(days=50): """USAGE : pdbsurvey (<days>) Surveys the updates added to the PDB (ftp.rcsb.org) in the last 50 days (or otherwise specified when calling this function) for entries that ..→

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