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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... Mdo mdo sets up a command to be executed upon entry into the specified frame of the movie. These commands are usually created by a PyMOL utility program (such as util.mrock). Command can actually contain several commands separated by semicolons ';' USAGE mdo frame : command PYMOL API cmd.mdo( int frame, string command ) EXAMPLE // Creates a single frame movie involving a rotation about X and Y load test.pdb mset 1 mdo 1: turn x,5; turn y,5; mplay //Show waters within 4 Angstroms around the first residue from a 15 frame simulation trajectory load structure.pdb load_traj structure.dcd, structure, start=1, stop=15 mset 1 -15 for a in range(1,16): cmd.mdo(a,"hide sphere; select waters, (structure & i. 1 around 4) & resn HOH, state="+str(a)+"; show sphere, waters") NOTES The mset command must first be used to define the movie before "mdo" statements will have any effect. Redefinition of the movie clears any existing mdo ..→

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