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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.5 has been released on May 10, 2021. Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2022-2023 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 New Plugin PICv is a new plugin for clustering protein-protein interactions and visualization with available data from PDBe 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... Get View get_view returns and optionally prints out the current view information in a format which can be embedded into a command script and can be used in subsequent calls to set_view. If a log file is currently open, get_view will not write the view matrix to the screen unless the "output" parameter is 2. This command is very useful for saving the orientation of a scene for later. Authors of molecular movies may find this command very powerful. USAGE get_view PYMOL API cmd.get_view(output=1, quiet=1) my_view = cmd.get_view() output control: 0 = output matrix to screen 1 = don't output matrix to screen 2 = force output to screen even if log file is open 3 = return formatted string instead of a list API USAGE cmd.get_view(0) # zero option suppresses output (LEGACY approach) cmd.get_view(quiet=1) # suppresses output using PyMOL's normal "quiet" parameter. NOTES Contents of the view matrix 0 - 8 = column-major 3x3 matrix ..→

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