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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMO v1.7 have all been released today, January 14, 2014. New Plugin Bondpack is 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... View view makes it possible to save and restore viewpoints on a given scene within a single session. USAGE view key[,action] view * key can be any string action should be 'store' or 'recall' (default: 'recall') PYMOL API cmd.view(string key,string action) FUNCTION KEY PRESETS Views F1 through F12 are automatically bound to function keys provided that "set_key" has not been used to redefine the behaviour of the respective key, and that a "scene" has not been defined for that key. EXAMPLES view 0,store view 0 SEE ALSO Scene, Set View, Get View

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