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)
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.)
More on starting with PyMol: bit.ly/pymolintro UA-cam: • Say hi to PyMol: intro...
My friend KP (Kristen Procko) has some great tutorials on UA-cam (Molecular Memory channel) I recommend you check out too: • PyMOL 101 with Molecul...
 
Structural biology resources - guide to my favorite software, articles, books, lectures, websites 
 downloadable version: bit.ly/structure_guide ; UA-cam: • Structural biology res...  
* If you need a refresher on X-ray crystallography, start here: bit.ly/xraycrystallography2    
* and I made a page on my blog that has links to all my structural biology posts: bit.ly/structural_biology    
* and here's a link to my UA-cam structural biology playlist: • Structural biology    
* here are some key posts:  
* resolution: blog: bit.ly/structure_resolution ; UA-cam: • It's just a model! Und...    • Viewing maps & evaluat...  and this intro video: UA-cam: • Resolution of molecula...       
* understanding crystal structures: bit.ly/crystalstructuremodels & • Understanding x-ray cr...   
more about all sorts of things: #365DaysOfScience All (with topics listed) 👉 bit.ly/2OllAB0 or search blog: thebumblingbiochemist.com

[@JackieLiu0406]

ChimeraX is just as good as Pymol now. And ChimeraX is free.

[@thebumblingbiochemist]

I'm still much more comfortable with PyMol, so that's what I personally prefer to use. There are free versions of PyMol as well and we get it free for educational use. But I do highly support ChimeraX as well