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News & Updates Selection keywords New polymer.protein and polymer.nucleic selection keywords. Thanks everyone who participated in the poll! Official Release PyMOL v2.0 has been released on September 20, 2017. 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... 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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