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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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Rigimol.morph The morph command is an incentive PyMOL feature (not available in open-source version). Given a two-state object, morph can create an interpolated trajectory from the first to the second conformation. Notice: There is a new morph command in PyMOL 1.6 Usage morph source, target [, first [, last [, refinement [, async [, steps ]]]]] Arguments source = string: name of two-state input object target = string: name of output object to create first = int: start state of source {default: 1} last = int: end state of source {default: 2} refinement = int: number of sculpting refinement cycles to clean distorted intermediates {default: 10} steps = int: number of states for target object {default: 30} Warning: arguments first, last and steps new in PyMOL 1.5 (up to 1.4 they are always at default values) Example <syntaxhighlight lang="python"> get open and closed conformation of adenylate kinase fetch 1ake 4ake, async=0 make two state object align 1ake and chain A, 4ake and chain A, ..→

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