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News & Updates
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 fellows announced for 2018-2019
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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Lines Lines is name of the basic representation for atoms and bonds in PyMOL. Lines is a very simple representation, where each atom bond is displayed as a single colored line, and each atom is displayed as the intersection of any two or more non-terminal bonds. Usage # show everything as lines show lines # only show residues 50-80 as lines show lines, i.50-80 Examples Example: Displaying dashed lines between two atoms The following commands will create a dashed line between two atoms. # first, create two named selections select a, ///A/501/02 select b, ///B/229/N # calculate & show the distance from selection a to selection b. distance d, a, b # hide just the distance labels; the # dashed bars should still be shown hide labels, d Technically, the object d is a labelled distance, only the label is hidden. When ray-tracing the image, the dashes come out a bit fat. You can slim them with <source lang="python"> set dash_gap, 0.5 set ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.

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