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News & Updates
PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship	Schrödinger is now accepting applications for the PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program! Details on http://pymol.org/fellowship
Official Release	PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7.6 have all been released on May 4, 2015.
New Plugin	PyANM is a new plugin for easier Anisotropic Network Model (ANM) building and visualising in PyMOL.
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.
Older News	See Older News.

Did you know...
Group The Group command creates or updates a "group" object. The grouped objects are collected underneath a + sign in the object tree (see images) in the Pymol Internal Gui. Group is tremendously helpful with multi-state or multi-structure sessions. Wildcards work great, for example: # put all of objState into the group "ensemble". group ensemble, objState* Three EF-Hand proteins loaded into PyMOL Applied the group command to the proteins via: "group efHand, " The plus was clicked and expanded to show the hierarchy of objects. Usage group name, members, action Actions: add* - Add member to group remove - Remove members from group open - Open the group in the panel so objects can be dragged in close - Close the group in the panel so nothing can be dragged in toggle - Switch between open or close based on current state auto ..→

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