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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v3.0 has been released on March 12, 2024. New Plugin CavitOmiX calculate Catalophore™ cavities, predict protein structures with OpenFold by NVIDIA-BioNeMo, ESMFold and retrieve Alphafold models 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 fellowship announced for 2022-2023 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.

Did you know... 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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