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News & Updates
POSF	New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019
Tutorial	Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5
Official Release	PyMOL v2.2 has been released on July 24, 2018.
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.

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Plugins Tutorial This tutorial is about writing your own plugin for PyMOL 2.x. See the plugins page for how to install and use exisiting plugins. Writing Plugins: Learn By Example This tutorial shows how to write a PyMOL plugin with PyQt. The full source of the demo plugin is available on github. The demo plugin adds a dialog to render images at a custom resolution. Plugin Files We will create a plugin which consists of multiple files inside a directory: pymol2-demo-plugin/ ├── demowidget.ui └── __init__.py (defines "__init_plugin__(app=None)" function) Registering your Plugin First you must add your plugin to the Plugins menu. This is done in the `__init_plugin__` function of your plugin. A callback (here: `run_plugin_gui`) is added. <source lang="python"> file pymol2-demo-plugin/__init__.py def __init_plugin__(app=None): from ..→

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