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Startup file of pymol on windows

On Windows, use 'pymolrc', 'pymolrc.py' or 'pymolrc.pym'. For global defaults (all users), you can place a .pymolrc file in C:\Program Files\DeLano Scientific\PyMOL (or C:\Program Files\PyMOL\PyMOL). You can launch PyMOL from the applications menu or from the icon on your desktop (if you placed one there).

Change coordinates by mouse

Electrostatic surface

Change number of threads

RNA/DNA representation

set orthoscopic, on
bg_color white
set cartoon_ring_mode, 1
set cartoon_ring_transparency, 0.3
set cartoon_ring_color, green
color green
viewport 480, 480
ray

Make a movie

cmd.movie.add_roll(2.0, axis='y', start=1)
set ray_trace_frames, 1
mpng snapshot/mov

# after that you can convert the snapshots into animation under Linux by
# convert -delay 20 snapshot/*.png out.gif

Installation

From compiled package

From source

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