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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... Find symbol = Overview = This script looks for the given symbol in a given module(s). This can be handy if you forgot which module something is in or just want to query for a substring in a set of modules. Usage # search pymol and pymol.cmd for any symbol starting with 'mov' fs("mov") ['cmd.get_movie_length', 'cmd.get_movie_locked', 'cmd.get_movie_playing', 'cmd.mmove', 'cmd.move', 'cmd.movie', 'cmd.moving', 'cmd.remove', 'cmd.remove_picked'] # Search PyMOL's CMD module for something called align fs("align", "cmd") ['cmd.align', 'cmd.alignto', 'cmd.cealign', 'cmd.get_raw_alignment'] The Code <source lang="python"> import pymol import inspect import pprint def fs(needle,haystack=["pymol","cmd"]): """ This script will find the 'needle' in the 'haystack,' where the former is a symbol to be found in the latter, which is a module. """ if type("") == type(haystack): haystack = [haystack,] for mod in haystack: found_list = map(lambda x: "%s.%s" % ..→

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