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News & Updates
New Setup	PyMOL-open-source-windows-setup v3.1 has been released on January 20, 2025. More information under Windows Install.
New Plugin	PySSA aims to combine PyMOL and ColabFold to enable the prediction and analysis of 3D protein structures for the scientific end-user. v1.0 has been released on July 10, 2024.
Official Release	PyMOL v3.0 has been released on March 12, 2024.
New Plugin	CavitOmiX calculate Catalophore™ cavities, predict protein structures with OpenFold by NVIDIA-BioNeMo, ESMFold and retrieve Alphafold models
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 fellowship announced for 2022-2023
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...
* FilterByMol -- Filter a directory of files, and save their ligands to disk (by molecule). LoadDir -- loads all the files of a type you specify from the path you specify and puts them into the group you specify (or none). Process_All_Files_In_Directory -- Do something to all files in a directory. The examples show how to print the disulfide bond lengths, then in general all sulfur distances (not necessarily bound). PythonTerminal -- Allows execution of python commands from the PyMOL command line. pdbsurvey -- Surveys the pdb for recently added structures that are relevant to a user-specified keywords list (in a text file) Read PDB-String -- Parses a string in PDB format to a PyMOL object. Monitor file continuously -- Watch a file on a separate thread and re-load when it is modified. XML-RPC server -- An API for controlling PyMOL remotely (from the same computer or on the network). Adapted from the server built in to PyMOL.