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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.4 has been released on May 20, 2020. Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins Official Release PyMOL v2.3 has been released on February 11, 2019. POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 New Plugin ProBiS H2O is a new plugin for identification of conserved waters in protein structures. 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... Color h = Overview = This script colors the selection passed in based on the hydrophobicity scale as defined by: Source: http://us.expasy.org/tools/pscale/Hphob.Eisenberg.html Amino acid scale: Normalized consensus hydrophobicity scale Author(s): Eisenberg D., Schwarz E., Komarony M., Wall R. Reference: J. Mol. Biol. 179:125-142 (1984) Or check out hydrophobicity coloring, with rTools from Kristian Rother. http://www.rubor.de/pymol_extensions_de.html The Code <source lang="python"> color_h ------- PyMOL command to color protein molecules according to the Eisenberg hydrophobicity scale Source: http://us.expasy.org/tools/pscale/Hphob.Eisenberg.html Amino acid scale: Normalized consensus hydrophobicity scale Author(s): Eisenberg D., Schwarz E., Komarony M., Wall R. Reference: J. Mol. Biol. 179:125-142 (1984) Amino acid scale values: Ala: 0.620 Arg: -2.530 Asn: -0.780 Asp: -0.900 Cys: 0.290 Gln: -0.850 Glu: -0.740 Gly: 0.480 His: -0.400 Ile: 1.380 Leu: 1.060 Lys: -1.500 Met: ..→

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