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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... Colorblindfriendly Type Python Script Download scripts/colorblindfriendly.py Author(s) Jared Sampson License MIT This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo Introduction Certain colors are indistinguishable to people with the various forms of color blindness, and therefore are better not used in figures intended for public viewing. This script generates a palette of named colors for PyMOL that are unambiguous both to colorblind and non-colorblind individuals. The colors listed here are defined according to recommendations by Okabe and Ito previously available at J*FLY (archived). This website is a good reference to consult when making all kinds of figures, not just those made using PyMOL. Colors These are the 0-255 RGB values from the J*FLY page that are used in the script, with the defined color names and alternate ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.