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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMO v1.7 have all been released] today, January 14, 2014. New Plugin Bondpack is a a collection of PyMOL plugins for easy visualization of atomic bonds. New Plugin MOLE 2.0 is a new plugin for rapid analysis of biomacromolecular channels in PyMOL. 3D using Geforce PyMOL can now be visualized in 3D using Nvidia GeForce video cards (series 400+) with 120Hz monitors and Nvidia 3D Vision, this was previously only possible with Quadro video cards. New Plugin GROMACS_Plugin is a new plugin that ties together PyMOL and GROMACS. New Software CMPyMOL is a software that interactively visualizes 2D contact maps of proteins in PyMOL. New Script cgo_arrow draws an arrow between two picked atoms. Tips & Tricks Instructions for generating movie PDFs using .mpg movies from PyMOL. Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Fetch Fetch retrieves a protein structure from the PDB and loads it into PyMOL. The PDB file is saved in fetch_path, which defaults to the current working directory for PyMOL. To download a so-called biological assembly or biological unit, use the assembly setting or use type=pdb1, type=pdb2 and so on. ChangeLog Changed in PyMOL 2.3.0: Default async=0 New in PyMOL 1.8.6: Support type=mmtf and fetch_type_default setting Changed in PyMOL 1.8.0: Default type=cif New in PyMOL 1.8.0: Support type=cc to download a chemical component by 3-letter code New in PyMOL 1.7.4: Support type=cif New in PyMOL 1.7.2: Support type=emd to download maps from EMDataBank New in PyMOL 1.7.0: Support type=cid and type=sid to download from PubChem New in PyMOL 1.6.0: Support 5 letter codes to download a single chain (4-letter pdb + ..→

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