PyMOL v1.6.0

Graphics

Presets for coloring by representation
Support sweep_angle setting with “Program > Scene Loop” Nutate/Rock
Add bz2 support for reading PDB/MAE/MOE/… files
Add support for width/height units in png command
New command line argument “-y”: Exit on error
Settings
- Most settings are now documented in the Settings > Edit All GUI
- Tk Settings > Edit All GUI refactored to allow window resizing and mouse wheel scrolling
iterate and alter have improved performance
Support object=aln argument with alignto command
VMD plugins have been updated
Morphing updates
- A > generate > morph
- Multi-state morphs
New commands: split_chains, mse2met
“ramps” in C (color) menu
Arbitrary object-level and atom-level properties
Mouse wheel scrolls object-menu-panel and other scrollable widgets
Spectrum command enhanced to take color lists like spectrumany and the new properties as expression
vdW bumps are now saved to, and can be loaded from session files

ANISOU records are now saved if present
Better tracking of hydrogens when editing with the Builder
Fixed alignment objects from “super” do not contain N atoms (SF-3506103)
Writing PDB files
- END before ENDMDL (SF-3496006)
- always right justify resn (SF-3539436)
Fixed crash when loading with connect_mode=2
Fixed shortcut auto-completion with exact prefixes
Feedback fixes
Leading whitespace in LITERAL parsing mode
Read last ANISOU record
Surface lighting was enhanced/smoothed
Scripts ending on “pymol.py” (https://sourceforge.net/p/pymol/bugs/46/)
Cealign alignment object: support for multiple alignments (swapped arguments internally)