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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.2 has been released on July 24, 2018. 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. 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... Matrix Copy Matrix_copy copies the object matrix from one object to another. This command is often used after a protein structure alignment to bring other related objects into the same frame of reference. Usage matrix_copy source_name, target_name Arguments source_name = string: name of object to take matrix from target_name = string: name(s) of object(s) to copy matrix to source_mode = integer: 0: raw coordinates, 1: object TTT matrix, 2: state matrix, 3: camera matrix transformation {default: -1: matrix_mode setting} target_mode = integer: (see source_mode) source_state = integer: object state {default: 1} target_state = integer: object state {default: 1} target_undo = 1/0: ??? {default: 1} Example Here's a practical example. We grab two proteins and their density maps. We then align one to the other and then use matrix_copy to move over the density map: <source lang="python"> fetch two proteins and their maps fetch 1rx1 3dau, async=0 fetch 1rx1 ..→

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