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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... Find symbol = Overview = This script looks for the given symbol in a given module(s). This can be handy if you forgot which module something is in or just want to query for a substring in a set of modules. Usage # search pymol and pymol.cmd for any symbol starting with 'mov' fs("mov") ['cmd.get_movie_length', 'cmd.get_movie_locked', 'cmd.get_movie_playing', 'cmd.mmove', 'cmd.move', 'cmd.movie', 'cmd.moving', 'cmd.remove', 'cmd.remove_picked'] # Search PyMOL's CMD module for something called align fs("align", "cmd") ['cmd.align', 'cmd.alignto', 'cmd.cealign', 'cmd.get_raw_alignment'] The Code <source lang="python"> import pymol import inspect import pprint def fs(needle,haystack=["pymol","cmd"]): """ This script will find the 'needle' in the 'haystack,' where the former is a symbol to be found in the latter, which is a module. """ if type("") == type(haystack): haystack = [haystack,] for mod in haystack: found_list = map(lambda x: "%s.%s" % ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.