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News & Updates 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... Origin origin sets the center of rotation about a selection. If an object name is specified, it can be used to set the center of rotation for the object's TTT matrix. USAGE origin selection [, object [,position, [, state]]] origin (selection) origin position=[1.0,2.0,3.0] PYMOL API cmd.origin( string object-or-selection ) NOTES state = 0 (default) use all coordinate states state = -1 use only coordinates for the current state state > 0 use coordinates for a specific state SEE ALSO Zoom, Orient, Reset Example This example puts the camera 'inside' a protein near the ligand and turns the camera 360 degrees about that location. <source lang="python"> load $TUT/1hpv.pdb set field_of_view, 45 zoom organic orient organic show stick, polymer show surface set surface_color, white set transparency, 0.5 clip slab, 30 set line_width, 5 cmd.move("z",-cmd.get_view()[11]) python def spin(): from pymol ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.