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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7.4 have all been released on December 3, 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... Plugins Plugins are external modules that add functionality to PyMOL. Plugins can be single Python files (*.py) or directories with an __init__.py file (see PluginArchitecture). Looking for available Plugins? Browse the plugins category. Installing Plugins To install a plugin, open PyMOL and then go to Plugin > Plugin Manager > Install new plugin You will have the option to install from a file on your computer (*.py, *.zip) or directly from the PyMOLWiki by providing the wiki page url. Writing Plugins See the Plugins Tutorial. Legacy Notes Version 3.0 Currently, support for plugins written in Tkinter is considered deprecated with full expectation of removal by PyMOL 4.0. Plugin developers should consider migrating legacy plugins to PyQt. Before Version 2.0 Plugins written with PyQt5 do not run in PyMOL 1.x. PyMOL 2.x has a legacy layer for Tkinter to support old plugins, but the preferred ..→

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