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News & Updates 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... Centerofmass The centerofmass command calculates the center of mass for an atom selection. It considers atom mass and occupancy. New in PyMOL 1.7.2. See the center_of_mass script for older PyMOL versions. Usage centerofmass [ selection [, state ]] Arguments selection = str: atom selection {default: all} state = int: object state, -1 for current state, 0 for all states {default: -1} Example PyMOL> fetch 1ubq, async=0 PyMOL> centerofmass Center of Mass: [ 30.004, 28.522, 14.701] Python API cmd.centerofmass() returns a list of 3 floats. See Also get_extent center of mass (script) COM (script)

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