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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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Pdb retain ids == Overview == If set, atoms and residues are not renumbered when exporting imported pdb. (Must be set before import) Syntax set pdb_retain_ids,[0,1] set pdb_retain_ids #default 1 Example Loaded and exported with pdb_retain_ids set to 0 <source lang="diff"> ATOM 21 CH2 TRP A 2 38.350 22.030 11.200 1.00 0.00 C ATOM 22 HH2 TRP A 2 38.620 21.010 10.930 1.00 0.00 H ATOM 23 C TRP A 2 35.010 27.370 14.910 1.00 0.00 C ATOM 24 O TRP A 2 35.380 27.560 16.060 1.00 0.00 O ATOM 25 CH3 ACE A 1 33.160 24.100 12.400 1.00 0.00 C ATOM 26 HH31 ACE A 1 32.860 24.830 11.650 1.00 0.00 H ATOM 27 HH32 ACE A 1 33.800 23.390 11.880 1.00 0.00 H ATOM 28 HH33 ACE A 1 32.250 23.650 12.770 1.00 0.00 H ATOM 29 C ACE A 1 33.910 24.800 13.510 1.00 0.00 C ATOM 30 O ACE A 1 ..→

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