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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... Enable The enable command toggles on the display of all currently visible representations of an object. It is the equivalent of selecting the object in the list at the top of the Internal GUI. USAGE enable [name [, parents]] name the name of an object or a named selection (default="all") parents when set to 1, enables the named object and all parent objects of the named object (recursively), so it won't be hidden by having a parent object (or group) that is disabled (default=0) PYMOL API cmd.enable( string name='all', int parents=0 ) EXAMPLES enable my_object enable (my_object1 or my_object2) enable my_object* enable enable my_object, parents=1 SEE ALSO Show, Hide, Disable, Suspend_updates {{Extension DPL}}

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