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News & Updates Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins Official Release PyMOL v2.3 has been released on February 11, 2019. POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 New Plugin ProBiS H2O is a new plugin for identification of conserved waters in protein structures. 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.

Did you know... Cache Cache manages storage of precomputed results, such as molecular surfaces. Usage cache action [, scenes [, state ]] where, the arguments are: action string: enable, disable, read_only, clear, or optimize scenes string: a space-separated list of scene names (default: ) state integer: state index (default: -1) Examples cache enable cache optimize cache optimize, F1 F2 F5 Notes "cache optimize" will iterate through the list of scenes provided (or all defined scenes), compute any missing surfaces, and store them in the cache for later reuse. API cmd.cache(string action, string scenes, int state, int quiet)

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