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News & Updates Selection keywords New polymer.protein and polymer.nucleic selection keywords. Thanks everyone who participated in the poll! Official Release PyMOL v2.0 has been released on September 20, 2017. Plugin Update MOLE 2.5 is an updated version of channel analysis software in PyMOL Official Release PyMOL v1.8.6 has been released on March 9, 2017. Official Release PyMOL v1.8.4 has been released on October 4, 2016. New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons New Plugin LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm. Official Release PyMOL v1.8.0 has been released on Nov 18, 2015. 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... 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.