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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.3 has been released on February 11, 2019. POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 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.

Did you know... Get Extent get_extent returns the minimum and maximum XYZ coordinates of a selection as an array: [ [ min-X , min-Y , min-Z ],[ max-X, max-Y , max-Z ]] Typing this command returns the coordinates for all atoms. To return the coordinates of the default selection type: get_extent sele PYMOL API cmd.get_extent(string selection="(all)", state=0 )

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