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News & Updates
POSF	PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program accepting applications for 2018-2019
New Plugin	ProBiS H2O is a new plugin for identification of conserved waters in protein structures.
Official Release	PyMOL v2.1 has been released on March 13, 2018.
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
New Plugin	LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm.
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...
CBC Util.cbc stands for (the utilities library's) color by chain. This simply colors molecules by their chains, as the name suggests. The affects of CBC are shown in the following images. Molecule loaded util.cbc command issued. Each chain gets its own color. Usage # simple command util.cbc selection, first_color, quiet # api usage util.cbc(selection='(all)',first_color=7,quiet=1,legacy=0,_self=cmd) where selection defaults to 'all', first_color defaults to 7, quiet defaults to 1 Example # color everything by chain util.cbc See Also Chainbow Util.rainbow util.cba

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.

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