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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...

Findseq

Overview & Motivation

Type	Python Script
Download	scripts/findseq.py
Author(s)	Jason Vertrees
License	BSD
	This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo

Anyone ever give you a protein and then say, find the sequence "FLVEW"? Well, this script will find any string or regular expression in a given object and return that selection for you. Here's an example, <syntaxhighlight lang="python"> reinitialize import findseq

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