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News & Updates 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... Get Names get_names returns a list of object and/or selection names. PYMOL API cmd.get_names(type,enabled_only,selection) ARGUMENTS type : string determines the type of objects to be returned. It can take any of the following values: objects Structure objects selections All selection all Objects and Selections public_objects (default) public_selections public_nongroup_objects public_group_objects nongroup_objects group_objects enabled_only : boolean If 1, only enabled objects are returned. Default 0 (all objects) selection NOTES The default behavior is to return only object names. EXAMPLES Multiple alignments # structure align all proteins in PyMOL to the protein named "PROT". Effectively a # poor multiple method for multiple structure alignment. for x in cmd.get_names("all"): cealign( "PROT", x) Determine whether or not an object ..→

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