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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7.2 have all been released on August 4, 2014. Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL 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.

Did you know... Create create creates a new molecule object from a selection. It can also be used to create states in an existing object. USAGE create name, (selection) [, source_state [, target_state ]] name = object to create (or modify) selection = atoms to include in the new object source_state (default: 0 - copy all states) target_state = int: -1 appends after last state {default: 0} PYMOL API cmd.create(string name, string selection, int source_state, int target_state,int discrete) NOTES If the source and target states are zero (default), all states will be copied. Otherwise, only the indicated states will be copied. Target state -1 will append new states. User Comments/Examples EXAMPLES <source lang="python"> merging two multi-state objects with the create command obj1 has 25 states and obj2 has 40 states load multi_state_obj1, obj1 load multi_state_obj2, obj2 merge the two multi-state objects back to back into obj3 0 ..→

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