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News & Updates
Official Release	[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.

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Get session Returns a dictionary representation the currently loaded PyMOL session.The session file (.pse) is a compressed version of its output. By using this API, user scripts can access many interesting properties which are otherwise inaccessible. Examples include Pymol2glmol and get_raw_distances scripts. WARNING: This API is undocumented API, intended for internal use. Use it only when it is necessary. Usage dict cmd.get_session(names='', partial=0) Return value The returned dictionary has following key-value pairs. Some entries are missing if using partial=1. main: An array encoding window size. For example, [640, 480] color_ext: settings: An array of PyMOL's global settings. They are dumped by SettingAsPyList in layer1/Setting.c. Further details will not be discussed because scripts can access these values from cmd.get API. colors: If you have defined color names by Set Color, they are described here. Default color names (red, blue, ..→

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