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News & Updates
Official Release	PyMOL v2.1 has been released on March 13, 2018.
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
New Plugin	LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm.
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...
Map Trim Map Trim introduced in PyMol 0.99beta11, gives the user the ability to cut out a section of a map and read it back in as a completely new map. This was not previously possible prior to 0.99beta11. (Windows build at PyMol Beta or compile from source). Usage map_trim map-name, selection-name, buffer Combined with the convenient new object-name wildcards (!!!), you could for example trim all your maps to 3 Angstroms around ligands with one commmand as follows map_trim , organic, 3 With map size now reduced, the map_double command can come in handy to increase mesh density on your figure. map_double

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.

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