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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.5 has been released on May 10, 2021. Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins 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.

Did you know... Launching From a Script The recommended way to run PyMOL-Python scripts is by using PyMOL as the interpreter. This is supported by all versions of PyMOL, including the pre-compiled bundles provided by Schrödinger. Example from a shell: shell> pymol -cq script.py With arguments (sys.argv becomes ["script.py", "foo", "bar"]): shell> pymol -cq script.py -- foo bar Example from a running PyMOL instance: PyMOL> run script.py For advanced users, the following PyMOL versions also allow to run PyMOL from an existing Python process: PyMOL 2.0 based on Anaconda (using Anaconda's python, which is included in bundles provided by Schrödinger) Open-Source PyMOL Schrödinger-provided "Mac alternative X11-only build" of the 1.8.x series After importing the pymol module, PyMOL's event loop has to be started with a call to pymol.finish_launching() (not supported on macOS). Usage With PyMOL 2.1, calling any ..→

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