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News & Updates New Script See Consistent_View/_Map_Inspect, which is a toolkit for rapidly inspecting multiple maps and models. Server updates The underlying servers upon which the PyMOLWiki runs were upgraded over the weekend. We are now fully functional. A deep thanks to BitGnome for donating time and hardware for the PyMOL project. fetch_host setting Fetch_Host has been added to allow users to download PDBs from their PDB server (pdb, pdb euro, or pdb japan) of choice. Fetch Fetch has been updated to also load electron density maps. Schrodinger Buys PyMOL Schrodinger has purchased PyMOL. Development, support and open-source fun to continue! Read about the sale. User Movie One of our users has posted another interesting movie, images from which were created with PyMOL. New setting surface_cavity_mode to change how PyMOL displays cavities. Search fixed. Thanks to a eagle-eyed user, our search has been fixed. Please let us know if you have any search-related problems. New Command Cache—stores information on structures, so we don't have to recompute them. Warren News about Warren DeLano's passing may be read on Warren's memorial page. Setting Fetch_Path—Sets the default path for the fetch command. New Script SelInside—Creates a custom selection of all atoms spatially inside some user-defined box.

Did you know... Config Mouse Config_mouse allows one to change the context the mouse; say for example if it has two button instead of three (so the user doesn't have to set the 2-Button Viewing Mode). USAGE If you have a 2-Button mouse and don't want to have to set it every time, add the following line to your pymolrc file. <source lang="python"> config_mouse two_button put the mouse in the cool-new movie-enabling mode config_mouse three_button_motions </ ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.