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News & Updates New Plugin ProBiS H2O is a new plugin for identification of conserved waters in protein structures. Official Release PyMOL v2.1 has been released on March 13, 2018. 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 New Plugin LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm. 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... Edit Keys ===EDITING KEYS === These are defaults, which can be redefined. Note that while entering text on the command line, some of these control keys take on text editing functions instead (CTRL - A, E, and K, and DELETE), so you should clear the command line before trying to edit atoms. ATOM REPLACEMENT CTRL-C Replace picked atom with carbon (C) CTRL-N Replace picked atom with nitrogen (N) CTRL-O Replace picked atom with oxygen (O) CTRL-S Replace picked atom with sulpher (S) CTRL-G Replace picked atom with hydrogen (H) CTRL-F Replace picked atom with fluorene (F) CTRL-L Replace picked atom with chlorine (Cl) CTRL-B Replace picked atom with bromine (Br) CTRL-I Replace picked atom with iodine (I) ATOM MODIFICATION CTRL-J Set charge on picked atom to -1 CTRL-K Set charge on picked atom to +1 CTRL-D Remove atom or bond (DELETE works too). CTRL-Y Add a hydrogen to the current atom CTRL-R Adjust hydrogens on atom/bond to match ..→

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