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News & Updates 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.

Did you know... Movie fade Type Python Module Download movie_fade.py Author(s) Jason Vertrees and Thomas Holder License BSD-2-Clause This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo This script will help fade in and out settings in a movie. Just specify the setting, it's initial value at an initial frame and it's ending value and frame. Usage movie_fade setting, startFrame, startVal, endFrame, endVal [, selection ] Examples To fade in sticks from fully transparent to fully opaque across 60 frames do: mset 1x60 movie_fade stick_transparency, 1, 1., 60, 0. More complex example which involves camera motion: fetch 1rx1, async=0 as cartoon show surface mset 1x80 movie.roll movie_fade transparency, 1, 0., 40, 1. movie_fade transparency, 41, 1., 80, 0. Example file: Result <source lang="python"> import movie_fade fetch 1hpv, async=0 orient format bg black show_as cartoon color marine, ss s color ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.