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News & Updates 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... Set Key set_key binds a Python function or PyMOL command to a key press. Such key binding customization is typically done with your pymolrc startup script. Changes with PyMOL version: 1.8: decorator support 1.7: second argument can also be a string in PyMOL command syntax PyMOL API cmd.set_key(string key, function fn, tuple arg=(), dict kw={}) Also supported since PyMOL 1.7: cmd.set_key(string key, string command) Decorator support since PyMOL 1.8: cmd.set_key(string key)(function fn) PyMOL Command (since PyMOL 1.7) set_key key, command Examples from pymol import cmd # define a custom function which colors a selection blue def make_it_blue(selection): cmd.color("blue", selection) # color "object1" blue when the F1 key is pressed cmd.set_key( 'F1' , make_it_blue, [ "object1" ] ) <source lang="python"> zoom on everything cmd.set_key( 'CTRL-C' , cmd.zoom ) ..→

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