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News & Updates POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 Official Release PyMOL v2.2 has been released on July 24, 2018. 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... FocalBlur Type Python Script Download focal_blur.py Author(s) Jarl Underhaug License - This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo Description This script creates fancy figures by introducing a focal blur to the image. The object at the origin will be in focus. Usage Load the script using the run command. Execute the script using PyMOL syntax: FocalBlur aperture=2.0,samples=20,ray=1 or using python syntax: FocalBlur(aperture=2.0,samples=20,ray=1) For additional options, see the script comments. Notes When using raytracing, the image creation will take n times longer than normal, where n is the number of samples. The aperture is related to the aperture on a camera, and is inversely proportional to the f-number. Bugs FocalBlur uses the Python Image Library (PIL), a necessary components of PIL is missing in the Windows version of PyMOL There is a bug when not using ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.