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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.2 has been released on April 20, 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... Pdb retain ids == Overview == If set, atoms and residues are not renumbered when exporting imported pdb. (Must be set before import) Syntax set pdb_retain_ids,[0,1] set pdb_retain_ids #default 1 Example Loaded and exported with pdb_retain_ids set to 0 <source lang="diff"> ATOM 21 CH2 TRP A 2 38.350 22.030 11.200 1.00 0.00 C ATOM 22 HH2 TRP A 2 38.620 21.010 10.930 1.00 0.00 H ATOM 23 C TRP A 2 35.010 27.370 14.910 1.00 0.00 C ATOM 24 O TRP A 2 35.380 27.560 16.060 1.00 0.00 O ATOM 25 CH3 ACE A 1 33.160 24.100 12.400 1.00 0.00 C ATOM 26 HH31 ACE A 1 32.860 24.830 11.650 1.00 0.00 H ATOM 27 HH32 ACE A 1 33.800 23.390 11.880 1.00 0.00 H ATOM 28 HH33 ACE A 1 32.250 23.650 12.770 1.00 0.00 H ATOM 29 C ACE A 1 33.910 24.800 13.510 1.00 0.00 C ATOM 30 O ACE A 1 ..→

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