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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.4 has been released on May 20, 2020. Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins Official Release PyMOL v2.3 has been released on February 11, 2019. POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 New Plugin ProBiS H2O is a new plugin for identification of conserved waters in protein structures. 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... 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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