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News & Updates
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.

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Load load reads several file formats. The file extension is used to determine the format. PDB files must end in ".pdb", MOL files must end in ".mol", Macromodel files must end in ".mmod", XPLOR maps must end in ".xplor", CCP4 maps must end in ".ccp4", Raster3D input (Molscript output) must end in ".r3d", PyMOL session files must end in ".pse", and pickled ChemPy models with a ".pkl" can also be directly read. If an object is specified, then the file is loaded into that object. Otherwise, an object is created with the same name as the file prefix. USAGE load filename [,object [,state [,format [,finish [,discrete [,multiplex ]]]]]] PYMOL API cmd.load( filename [,object [,state [,format [,finish [,discrete [,multiplex ]]]]]] ) ARGUMENTS filename : string Path or URL to the file to load. object : string Name of Pymol object to store the structure in. Defaults to the filename prefix. state : integer State number to store the ..→

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