Cartoon ring mode

Overview

PyMOL provides a variety of representations for illustrating nucleic acid structures. This setting, ring_mode, affects how PyMol draws the bases in a nucleic acid representation.

Syntax

# try other natural numbers
set cartoon_ring_mode, 3

Currently, there are 7 modes, numbered 0 through 6. See the illustrations below.

Examples

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  Set to 0

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  Set to 1

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  Set to 2

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  Set to 3

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  Set to 4

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  Set to 6

See Also

Cartoon#Nucleic_Acid_Representation