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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.2 has been released on April 20, 2016. New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons 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... Resicolor ==Description== Here is a small script to color proteins according to residue type. Call it from your .pymolrc or from within pymol: "run resicolor.py". Then, issuing "resicolor" will apply the scheme. Selections are supported: "resicolor chain A" will apply the scheme only to chain A. This functionality is also available as a plugin (Resicolor_plugin). <source lang="python"> script contributed by Philippe Garteiser; garteiserp@omrf.ouhsc.edu from pymol import cmd def resicolor(selection='all'): USAGE: resicolor <selection> colors all or the given selection with arbitrary coloring scheme. cmd.select ('calcium','resn ca or resn cal') cmd.select ('acid','resn asp or resn glu or resn cgu') cmd.select ('basic','resn arg or resn lys or resn his') cmd.select ('nonpolar','resn met or resn phe or resn pro or resn trp or resn val or resn leu or resn ile or resn ala') cmd.select ('polar','resn ser or resn thr or resn asn or resn gln or resn tyr') cmd.select ('cys','resn cys or resn ..→

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