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News & Updates POSF PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program accepting applications for 2018-2019 New Plugin ProBiS H2O is a new plugin for identification of conserved waters in protein structures. Official Release PyMOL v2.1 has been released on March 13, 2018. 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 New Plugin LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm. 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... Texture fonts = Overivew = Not sure exactly what this does. The reason this page exists is to let the users know that this setting can affect rendering performance in PyMOL. To test how this affects your PyMOL. Turn on the frames per second (FPS) meter. Load a complex scene turn on the sequence viewer (Seq_View) and then rotate the molecule. While doing this look at the maximum frame rate. Then turn on Texture_fonts and rotate the scene while watching the frame rate. Here are my example numbers: texture_fonts off max = 142 FPS texture_fonts on max = 363 FPS That's a huge difference. Syntax # turn on texture fonts set texture_fonts, 1

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.