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News & Updates
Official Release	PyMOL v2.5 has been released on May 10, 2021.
Python 3	New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins
POSF	New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019
Tutorial	Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5
New Plugin	PICv is a new plugin for clustering protein-protein interactions and visualization with available data from PDBe
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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Undo (Incentive PyMOL only feature) Most actions as of Incentive PyMOL 2.5 are undoable. Actions are undoable via GUI menu (Edit -> Undo). The undo feature may be manually disabled by unchecking `Edit -> Undo Enabled`, and can be re-enabled by rechecking the same menu item. Usage undo [, steps] steps = integer: number of steps to undo PyMOL API cmd.undo(int steps=1) `undo_enable` is an API-only feature that allows you enable undo. cmd.undo_enable() `undo_disable` is an API-only feature that allows you disable undo. cmd.undo_disable() Example undo undo 5 Comments Currently, the undo stack supports the previous 25 actions or up to 1GB memory used. These will later be configurable in an upcoming release. Currently, undo support for builder is not available but will be supported in a later patch release. While movie is playing, the undo manager is paused and will ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.

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