PyMol tips to not lose orientations & styling: save views, scenes, & selections

A few tips so you don't lose your hard work styling things and getting a view that you like

If you want to save representation style, coloring, & orientation etc. (“everything”): save as scene

In command line:

scene auto, store

(or replace auto with the name you want)

https://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Scene

If you just want to just use the orientation: use get_view & set_view

get_view - provides code block. You can then copy & paste the code it gives you and save it

Then, when you have some sort of new representation you like, paste that code into the command line & it will give you that orientation, but keep your representation

Save selections of all the different things you might want to go back to later (critical residues, regions, etc.)

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My friend KP (Kristen Procko) has some great tutorials on YouTube (Molecular Memory channel) I recommend you check out too:    • PyMOL 101 with Molecular Memory  
 
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* understanding crystal structures: https://bit.ly/crystalstructuremodels &    • Understanding x-ray crystallography s...     

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