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News & Updates
PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship	Schrödinger is now accepting applications for the PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program! Details on http://pymol.org/fellowship
Official Release	PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7.2 have all been released on August 4, 2014.
Official Release	PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7 have all been released today, January 14, 2014.
New Plugin	Bondpack is 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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Matrix Copy Matrix_copy copies the object matrix from one object to another. This command is often used after a protein structure alignment to bring other related objects into the same frame of reference. Usage matrix_copy source_name, target_name Arguments source_name = string: name of object to take matrix from target_name = string: name(s) of object(s) to copy matrix to source_mode = integer: 0: raw coordinates, 1: object TTT matrix, 2: state matrix, 3: camera matrix transformation {default: -1: matrix_mode setting} target_mode = integer: (see source_mode) source_state = integer: object state {default: 1} target_state = integer: object state {default: 1} target_undo = 1/0: ??? {default: 1} Example Here's a practical example. We grab two proteins and their density maps. We then align one to the other and then use matrix_copy to move over the density map: <source lang="python"> fetch two proteins and their maps fetch 1rx1 3dau, async=0 fetch 1rx1 ..→

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