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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... Assembly When loading mmCIF structure files, the assembly setting controls whether PyMOL loads the asymmetric unit (assembly="") or a biological unit (e.g. assembly="1"). Assembly identifiers in mmCIF files can be arbitrary strings, but usually are numeric and most files define at least assembly "1". New in PyMOL 1.8 Assemblies with more than one symmetry copy are loaded as multi-state objects with all_states=on. The assemblies should be equivalent to the pdb1 files which are available from the PDB ftp server. Examples Download the ASU and the first assembly, show them side by side. set assembly, "" fetch 3bw1, asu, async=0 set assembly, 1 fetch 3bw1, assembly1, async=0 set grid_mode See Also all_states split_states http://mmcif.wwpdb.org/dictionaries/mmcif_pdbx.dic/Items/_pdbx_struct_assembly.id.html BiologicalUnit/Quat and BiologicalUnit: scripts to parse assembly information from ..→

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