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News & Updates 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.

Did you know... SaveGroup This script creates the command "saveGroup". saveGroup will save the specified group to disk as one file with all group objects in it, or as many files one pdb in each file. To save to one file just call saveGroup groupName to save to many files call saveGroup groupName, oneFile=False . The Code <source lang="python"> import pymol from pymol import cmd, stored def saveGroup(g, oneFile=None): """ Save all files inside group 'g' to either one file or a list of files PARAMS g name of the group to save oneFile if not specified or None, saves each protein in the group to its own file, if oneFile=True, then saves all the files in the group to just one file. RETURNS None """ oneFile = (oneFile!=None) if cmd.get_type(g) != "object:group": print "Error: please provide a group name to save." return stored.models = set() cmd.iterate(g, 'stored.models.ad ..→

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