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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.

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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 Examples Creating, opening and closing <source lang="python"> group efHand, 1cll 1ggz 1sra allow addition and removal from the group If a group is open, objects can be added to or removed from it by right-click+drag from the control panel group efHand, open disallow addition/removal from ..→

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