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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v3.0 has been released on March 12, 2024. New Plugin CavitOmiX calculate Catalophore™ cavities, predict protein structures with OpenFold by NVIDIA-BioNeMo, ESMFold and retrieve Alphafold models 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 fellowship 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... Clip clip alters the near and far clipping planes USAGE clip {near|far|move|slab|atoms}, distance [,selection [,state ]] EXAMPLES clip near, -5 # moves near plane away from you by 5 A clip far, 10 # moves far plane towards you by 10 A clip move, -5 # moves the slab away from you by 5 A clip slab, 20 # sets slab thickness to 20 A clip slab, 10, resi 11 # clip 10 A slab about residue 11 clip atoms, 5, pept # clip atoms in "pept" with a 5 A buffer # about their current camera positions PYMOL API cmd.clip( string mode, float distance, string selection = None) SEE ALSO Zoom Reset

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.