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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... Grepset Type Python Script Download scripts/grepset.py Author(s) Ezequiel Panepucci License BSD This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo Included in psico This command or function is available from psico, which is a PyMOL extension. Module psico.helping Use this little script to explore PyMOL's myriad settings. Usefull for newbies and those with not so good memory skills... To use: put the script in a file called grepset.py from within PyMOL execute run grepset.py. If you have the Pymol-script library configured, then import grepset try it out, see examples below. Example 1: grepset light cartoon_highlight_color default dot_lighting on light [ -0.40000, -0.40000, -1.00000 ] mesh_lighting off two_sided_lighting off 5 settings matched Example 2: grepset trans cartoon_transparency 0.00000 ray_transparency_contrast 1.00000 ray_transparency_shadows 1 ray_transparency_spec_cut 0.90000 ray_transparency_specular 0.40000 sphere_transparency ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.