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News & Updates New Plugin CavitOmiX calculate Catalophore™ Cavities, predict protein structures with OpenFold by NVIDEA-BioNeMo, ESMFold and retrieve Alphafold models Official Release PyMOL v2.5 has been released on May 10, 2021. Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins POSF New PyMOL fellowship announced for 2022-2023 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 New Plugin PICv is a new plugin for clustering protein-protein interactions and visualization with available data from PDBe Selection keywords New polymer.protein and polymer.nucleic selection keywords. Thanks everyone who participated in the poll! Plugin Update MOLE 2.5 is an updated version of channel analysis software in PyMOL New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Color h = Overview = This script colors the selection passed in based on the hydrophobicity scale as defined by: Source: http://us.expasy.org/tools/pscale/Hphob.Eisenberg.html Amino acid scale: Normalized consensus hydrophobicity scale Author(s): Eisenberg D., Schwarz E., Komarony M., Wall R. Reference: J. Mol. Biol. 179:125-142 (1984) Or check out hydrophobicity coloring, with rTools from Kristian Rother. http://www.rubor.de/pymol_extensions_de.html The Code <source lang="python"> color_h ------- PyMOL command to color protein molecules according to the Eisenberg hydrophobicity scale Source: http://us.expasy.org/tools/pscale/Hphob.Eisenberg.html Amino acid scale: Normalized consensus hydrophobicity scale Author(s): Eisenberg D., Schwarz E., Komarony M., Wall R. Reference: J. Mol. Biol. 179:125-142 (1984) Amino acid scale values: Ala: 0.620 Arg: -2.530 Asn: -0.780 Asp: -0.900 Cys: 0.290 Gln: -0.850 Glu: -0.740 Gly: 0.480 His: -0.400 Ile: 1.380 Leu: 1.060 Lys: -1.500 ..→

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