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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.6 has been released on March 9, 2017. Official Release PyMOL v1.8.4 has been released on October 4, 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... Cif use auth When loading mmCIF structure files, the cif_use_auth setting (default: on) controls whether the auth_* fields are used or not. New in PyMOL 1.7.8 With the PDBx/mmCIF format, the PDB introduced new residue and chain numbering schemes. The numbering which is found in PDB files is available in mmCIF files from the auth_* fields. The new numbering, which for example has no insertion codes and strictly increments residue numbers, is available from the label_* fields. For compatibility with PDB files, PyMOL by default will read the auth_* fields (if available, with fallback to label_* fields). Note that _atom_site.label_asym_id is always loaded into the segi field, independant of the cif_use_auth setting. Note that non-polymer molecules (e.g. water) are not enumerated by _atom_site.label_seq_id and will appear as a single residue in PyMOL (sequence viewer, when making selections, etc.) with cif_use_auth=off. == Currently affected fields ..→

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