[PyMOL] PyMOL 1.7.4 released

[Thomas H. <tho...@sc...>]

Greetings,

We are happy to announce the release of PyMOL v1.7.4.0! Official PyMOL sponsors can download ready-to-use installers from http://pymol.org/download . The open-source code has been pushed to sourceforge svn (revision 4104). This release is focused on adding and/or improving support for several file formats, in particular mmCIF.

- mmCIF
    - fast loading
    - multi-letter chain support
    - loads auth_asym_id as chain and label_asym_id as segi
    - fetch with “fetch 1a00, type=cif”
    - saving (.cif extension, atoms and symmetry only)
    - experimental connect_mode=4 uses components.cif for bonding
      (file must exist in current directory or COMPONENTS_CIF environment variable)
- load Desmond idx files
- load spi (spider) maps
- load map and mrc extensions as ccp4
- Python callback objects now stored in PSE files

If you have a powerful graphics card and enough memory, try this:
PyMOL> fetch 3j3y, type=cif
PyMOL> set cartoon_oval_quality, 4
PyMOL> as cartoon

That’s over 2 million atoms. Don’t try this on a weak laptop :-)

Find the complete release notes on:
http://pymol.org/d/media:new174

We welcome any feedback and bug reports.

Cheers,
- The PyMOL Team at Schrödinger

-- 
Thomas Holder
PyMOL Principal Developer
Schrödinger, Inc.