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News & Updates
Official Release	PyMOL v2.4 has been released on May 20, 2020.
Python 3	New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins
Official Release	PyMOL v2.3 has been released on February 11, 2019.
POSF	New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019
Tutorial	Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5
New Plugin	PICv is a new plugin for clustering protein-protein interactions and visualization with available data from PDBe
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
Older News	See Older News.

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Resicolor ==Description== Here is a small script to color proteins according to residue type. Call it from your .pymolrc or from within pymol: "run resicolor.py". Then, issuing "resicolor" will apply the scheme. Selections are supported: "resicolor chain A" will apply the scheme only to chain A. This functionality is also available as a plugin (Resicolor_plugin). <source lang="python"> script contributed by Philippe Garteiser; garteiserp@omrf.ouhsc.edu from pymol import cmd def resicolor(selection='all'): USAGE: resicolor <selection> colors all or the given selection with arbitrary coloring scheme. cmd.select ('calcium','resn ca or resn cal') cmd.select ('acid','resn asp or resn glu or resn cgu') cmd.select ('basic','resn arg or resn lys or resn his') cmd.select ('nonpolar','resn met or resn phe or resn pro or resn trp or resn val or resn leu or resn ile or resn ala') cmd.select ('polar','resn ser or resn thr or resn asn or resn gln or resn tyr') cmd.select ('cys','resn cys or resn ..→

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