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News & Updates
New Setup	PyMOL-open-source-windows-setup v3.1 has been released on January 20, 2025. More information under Windows Install.
New Plugin	PySSA aims to combine PyMOL and ColabFold to enable the prediction and analysis of 3D protein structures for the scientific end-user. v1.0 has been released on July 10, 2024.
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.

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ConnectedCloud = Overview = ConnectedCloud grows a cloud of objects that are "connected" through single-linkage clustering. Two objects are "connected" if they are within the user-defined cutoff, radius. It starts with a selection, and grows until no more objects are withing radius Angstroms of the cloud. Let's say we want to find the cloud of docking guesses (blue lines) that are connected to the lowest energy docking pose (red sticks). I call, connectedCloud lig1, lig*, radius=1, doPrint=True and get Find the cloud growing from the red sticks. Consider all blue lines for inclusion. Those in the cloud are shown in red. Notice the small blue cloud above the red was not selected. At no point were those atoms close enough to the currently growing cloud, to be considered. Syntax connectedCloud origSel, subSel, [radius=1, [doPrint=True]] origSel -- the original ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.

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