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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.4 has been released on May 20, 2020. Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins Official Release PyMOL v2.3 has been released on February 11, 2019. POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 New Plugin ProBiS H2O is a new plugin for identification of conserved waters in protein structures. 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... Format bonds Type Python Module Download format_bonds.py Author(s) Andreas Warnecke License BSD-2-Clause This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo The script format_bonds will automatically format bonds in amino acids. Usage format_bonds [ selection [, bonds ]] Examples format_bonds bonds=1 format_bonds bonds=2 format_bonds import format_bonds frag PHE format_bonds format_bonds bonds=2 Notes Remember to correctly configure plugin import (see: Git intro) format_bonds will introduce delocalized bonds by default or when bonds is larger than 2. Setting bonds=1 will simply disable valence display (globally!) The selection argument is 'all' by default and can be used to restrict editing to selected residues. Note that format_bonds will also format acidic residues, the ..→

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