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News & Updates
Official Release	PyMOL v1.8.2 has been released on April 20, 2016.
New Script	dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons
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.

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DrawBoundingBox = Overview = Draws a bounding box around a given selection. Example of a bounding box Two bounding boxes, one with 0 padding, the other with 10 Ang padding. Example run ~/drawBoundingBox.py fetch 1jsd drawBoundingBox 1jsd, r=0.33, g=0.80 # example from above w/padding, draw it light blue drawBoundingBox padding=10, r=0.5, g=0.8, b=1.0 Installation Copy the source code to your computer, and execute it by issuing the command "run /path/to/drawBoundingBox.py" in PyMOL. <source lang="python"> -- coding: utf-8 -- from pymol.cgo import * from pymol import cmd from random import randint ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.

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