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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 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... Get Pdbstr get_pdbstr is an API-only function which returns a pdb corresponding to the atoms in the selection provided and that are present in the indicated state PYMOL API ONLY cmd.get_pdbstr( string selection="all", int state=0 ) NOTES state is a 1-based state index for the object. if state is zero, then current state is used. EXAMPLES The following example lists the residues in the selection called, near. import cmd # -- if required select near, sel01 around 6 cmd.get_pdbstr("near")

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