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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.5 has been released on May 10, 2021. Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 New Plugin PICv is a new plugin for clustering protein-protein interactions and visualization with available data from PDBe 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... DrawGridBox Type Python Script Download drawgridbox.py Author(s) Cunliang Geng License BSD-2-Clause This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo This script adds the drawgridbox command, which draw grid boxes around a selection. Usage drawgridbox [ selection, [nx, [ny, [nz, [padding, [lw, [r, [g, [b]]]]]]]]] Prameters selection = str: atom selection {default: all} nx = int: number of grids on axis X {default: 10} ny = int: number of grids on axis Y {default: 10} nz = int: number of grids on axis Z {default: 10} padding = float: default 0.0 lw = float: line width {default: 2.0} r = float: red color component, valid range is [0.0, 1.0] {default 1.0} g = float: green color component, valid range is [0.0, 1.0] {default 1.0} b = float: blue color component, valid range is [0.0, 1.0] {default 1.0} Examples load drawgridbox.py fetch 1cbh show surface drawgridbox 1cbh, nx=5, ny=5, nz=5, lw=1, g=0, b=0 ..→

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