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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... Pair fit Pair_Fit fits a set of atom pairs between two models. Each atom in each pair must be specified individually, which can be tedious to enter manually. Script files are recommended when using this command. USAGE pair_fit (selection), (selection), [ (selection), (selection) [ ...] ] EXAMPLES # superimpose protA residues 10-25 and 33-46 to protB residues 22-37 and 41-54: pair_fit protA///10-25+33-46/CA, protB///22-37+41-54/CA # superimpose ligA atoms C1, C2, and C4 to ligB atoms C8, C4, and C10, respectively: pair_fit ligA////C1, ligB////C8, ligA////C2, ligB////C4, ligA////C3, ligB////C10 NOTES So long as the atoms are stored in PyMOL with the same order internally, you can provide just two selections. Otherwise, you may need to specify each pair of atoms separately, two by two, as additional arguments to pair_fit. Script files are usually recommended when using this command. USER EXAMPLES/COMMENTS An description of ..→

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