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Tutorial	Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5
Official Release	PyMOL v2.2 has been released on July 24, 2018.
POSF	PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program accepting applications for 2018-2019
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.

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Fetch Host The fetch_host setting controls from which PDB server you download files when using the fetch command. You options are: pdb pdbe pdbj mirror URL with "divided" layout (new in PyMOL 1.6) for the standard RCSB (pdb), pdb mirror in europe, and the pdb mirror in Japan. New in PyMOL 1.3 Details The exact URL (or list of URLs to try) is stored in `pymol.importing.hostPaths[type]`. The fetch_host setting only applies to the incomplete (not starting with `scheme://`) URL entries there. Usage set fetch_host, pdb set fetch_host, pdbe set fetch_host, pdbj set fetch_host, http://ftp.wwpdb.org/pub/pdb set fetch_host, file:///local/mirror/pub/pdb # Paths which are appended to fetch_host import pymol pymol.importing.hostPaths["cif"] = "/data/structures/divided/mmCIF/{mid}/{code}.cif.gz" pymol.importing.hostPaths["pdb"] = "/data/structures/divided/pdb/{mid}/pdb{code}.ent.gz" <syntaxhighlight lang="python"> Don't use ..→

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