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News & Updates POSF PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program accepting applications for 2018-2019 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... Set Key set_key binds a Python function or PyMOL command to a key press. Such key binding customization is typically done with your pymolrc startup script. Changes with PyMOL version: 1.8: decorator support 1.7: second argument can also be a string in PyMOL command syntax PyMOL API cmd.set_key(string key, function fn, tuple arg=(), dict kw={}) Also supported since PyMOL 1.7: cmd.set_key(string key, string command) Decorator support since PyMOL 1.8: cmd.set_key(string key)(function fn) PyMOL Command (since PyMOL 1.7) set_key key, command Examples from pymol import cmd # define a custom function which colors a selection blue def make_it_blue(selection): cmd.color("blue", selection) # color "object1" blue when the F1 key is pressed cmd.set_key( 'F1' , make_it_blue, [ "object1" ] ) <source lang="python"> zoom on everything cmd.set_key( 'CTRL-C' , cmd.zoom ) ..→

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