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News & Updates Official Release [AxPyMOL, and JyMO v1.7 have all been released] today, January 14, 2014. New Plugin Bondpack is a a collection of PyMOL plugins for easy visualization of atomic bonds. New Plugin MOLE 2.0 is a new plugin for rapid analysis of biomacromolecular channels in PyMOL. 3D using Geforce PyMOL can now be visualized in 3D using Nvidia GeForce video cards (series 400+) with 120Hz monitors and Nvidia 3D Vision, this was previously only possible with Quadro video cards. New Plugin GROMACS_Plugin is a new plugin that ties together PyMOL and GROMACS. New Software CMPyMOL is a software that interactively visualizes 2D contact maps of proteins in PyMOL. New Script cgo_arrow draws an arrow between two picked atoms. Tips & Tricks Instructions for generating movie PDFs using .mpg movies from PyMOL. Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Undo (Incentive PyMOL only feature) Most actions as of Incentive PyMOL 2.5 are undoable. Actions are undoable via GUI menu (Edit -> Undo). The undo feature may be manually disabled by unchecking `Edit -> Undo Enabled`, and can be re-enabled by rechecking the same menu item. Usage undo [, steps] steps = integer: number of steps to undo PyMOL API cmd.undo(int steps=1) undo_enable is an API-only feature that allows you enable undo. cmd.undo_enable() undo_disable is an API-only feature that allows you disable undo. cmd.undo_disable() Example undo undo 5 Comments Currently, the undo stack supports the previous 25 actions or up to 1GB memory used. These will later be configurable in an upcoming release. Currently, undo support for builder is not available but will be supported in a later patch release. While movie is playing, the undo manager is paused and will ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.