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News & Updates
Official Release	[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.

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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")