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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... Ignore case The ignore_case setting (default: on, except in PyMOL 1.8.0.0 - 1.8.0.4) controls whether PyMOL does case sensitive matching of atomic identifiers and selection operators in the selection language. Most notably, it affects whether chain identifiers are matched case sensitive, which becomes relevant when using upper and lower case chain identifiers in a structure with more than 26 chains. The default value was changed to off in PyMOL 1.8.0.0. However, due to undesired side effects, the on default was restored in 1.8.0.5. The next PyMOL version (expect 1.8.2) will introduce a new ignore_case_chain setting to address the issue of mixed case chain identifiers. See also: https://sourceforge.net/p/pymol/mailman/message/34815599/ Example Load 1a00 which has chains A, B, C, D PyMOL>fetch 1a00, async=0 1) case insensitive selection language (default for PyMOL <= 1.7.6 and >= 1.8.0.5) PyMOL>set ignore_case ..→

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