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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.

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Fetch Host The fetch_host setting controls from which PDB server you download files when using the fetch command. You options are: pdb pdbe pdbj mirror URL with "divided" layout (new in PyMOL 1.6) for the standard RCSB (pdb), pdb mirror in europe, and the pdb mirror in Japan. New in PyMOL 1.3 Details The exact URL (or list of URLs to try) is stored in `pymol.importing.hostPaths[type]`. The fetch_host setting only applies to the incomplete (not starting with `scheme://`) URL entries there. Usage set fetch_host, pdb set fetch_host, pdbe set fetch_host, pdbj set fetch_host, http://ftp.wwpdb.org/pub/pdb set fetch_host, file:///local/mirror/pub/pdb # Paths which are appended to fetch_host import pymol pymol.importing.hostPaths["cif"] = "/data/structures/divided/mmCIF/{mid}/{code}.cif.gz" pymol.importing.hostPaths["pdb"] = "/data/structures/divided/pdb/{mid}/pdb{code}.ent.gz" <syntaxhighlight lang="python"> Don't use ..→

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