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News & Updates
Official Release	PyMOL v1.8.6 has been released on March 9, 2017.
Official Release	PyMOL v1.8.4 has been released on October 4, 2016.
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.
Official Release	PyMOL v1.8.0 has been released on Nov 18, 2015.
PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship	Schrödinger is now accepting applications for the PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program! Details on http://pymol.org/fellowship
Official Release	PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7.6 have all been released on May 4, 2015.
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.

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Super super aligns two selections. It does a sequence-independent (unlike align) structure-based dynamic programming alignment followed by a series of refinement cycles intended to improve the fit by eliminating pairing with high relative variability (just like align). super is more robust than align for proteins with low sequence similarity. Usage See align command. Caveats Alternative Conformations: If super ever tells you no matched atoms, then instead of super p1, p2 try super p1 & alt A+'', p2 & alt B+'' User Scripts Write rmsd to file pymol_rmsd_test.pml reinitialize fetch 1F9J, async=0 fetch 1YX5, async=0 extract 1F9J_A, 1F9J and chain A extract 1YX5_B, 1YX5 and chain B test=cmd.super("1F9J_A","1YX5_B") python writefile=open("rmsd_file.txt","a") writefile.write(' '.join('%s' % x for x in test)) writefile.write('\n') writefile.close() python end In ..→

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