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News & Updates Plugin Update MOLE 2.5 is an updated version of channel analysis software in PyMOL 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.

Did you know... FetchLocal == Overview == Try fetching local copy of PDB files before going on internet to fetch a remote copy. Sometimes you have a local copy of the PDB structure files, or biological unit files. They are, however, usually organized into sub-directories (for a good reason). Setting Fetch_Path to the top directory will not make PyMOL to use local files before go on internet to fetch a remote copy. This script extends the functionality of the PyMOL command Fetch by searching local sub-directories for target files first. The search order of the script: 1. local copy of PDB; 2. Fetch_Path; 3. remote repository (Fetch_Host). Note The script only copes with .pdb and .pdb1 (or .pdb2, .pdb3, ...) file types. Syntax See Fetch The Code <source lang="python"> """ 2012_09_18, Hongbo Zhu <hongbo.zhu.cn gmail> DESCRIPTION: Look for pdb* on local disk before fetching ..→

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