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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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Matrix Copy Matrix_copy copies the object matrix from one object to another. This command is often used after a protein structure alignment to bring other related objects into the same frame of reference. Usage matrix_copy source_name, target_name Arguments source_name = string: name of object to take matrix from target_name = string: name(s) of object(s) to copy matrix to source_mode = integer: 0: raw coordinates, 1: object TTT matrix, 2: state matrix, 3: camera matrix transformation {default: -1: matrix_mode setting} target_mode = integer: (see source_mode) source_state = integer: object state {default: 1} target_state = integer: object state {default: 1} target_undo = 1/0: ??? {default: 1} Example Here's a practical example. We grab two proteins and their density maps. We then align one to the other and then use matrix_copy to move over the density map: <source lang="python"> fetch two proteins and their maps fetch 1rx1 3dau, async=0 fetch 1rx1 ..→

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