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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.

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Fetch Fetch retrieves a protein structure from the PDB and loads it into PyMOL. The PDB file is saved in fetch_path, which defaults to the current working directory for PyMOL. To download a so-called biological assembly or biological unit, use the assembly setting or use type=pdb1, type=pdb2 and so on. ChangeLog Changed in PyMOL 2.3.0: Default async=0 New in PyMOL 1.8.6: Support type=mmtf and fetch_type_default setting Changed in PyMOL 1.8.0: Default type=cif New in PyMOL 1.8.0: Support type=cc to download a chemical component by 3-letter code New in PyMOL 1.7.4: Support type=cif New in PyMOL 1.7.2: Support type=emd to download maps from EMDataBank New in PyMOL 1.7.0: Support type=cid and type=sid to download from PubChem New in PyMOL 1.6.0: Support 5 letter codes to download a single chain (4-letter pdb + ..→

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