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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 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 Coordinates I There are several ways to extract or load atomic coordinates in PyMOL using the python API. Extract coordinates using get_coords New in PyMOL 1.7.4. This is the fastest method to extract coordinates from a selection. It considers the object rotation matrix. xyz = cmd.get_coords('sele', 1) Extract coordinates using get_coordset New in PyMOL 1.7.4. Operates on the object-state level, not on selections. Does not consider the object rotation matrix. Retrieves coordinates in original order (e.g. PDB file atom order), not in sorted atom order. Faster than get_coords. xyz = cmd.get_coordset(objectname, 1) Extract coordinates using get_model Before 1.7.4, this was the fastest method to extract coordinates. It considers the object rotation matrix. xyz = cmd.get_model('sele', 1).get_coord_list() Extract coordinates using iterate_state This is much slower than the first ..→

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Extract coordinates using get_coords