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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... Sphere scale ==Overview== This setting affects the apparent radius of spheres in the sphere representation. Default scale is set to 1.0. Syntax # set the sphere scale to size for selection. cmd.set ("sphere_scale", size=1, selection='', state=0, updates=1, log=0, quiet=1) # generally it's simpler to use the console form set sphere_scale, size, selection # you can print the current value for sphere_scale get sphere_scale size can be any floating point number, selection is the name of a selection. Examples Using 0.25 gives a nice balls&sticks representation with both lines and spheres turned on. set_bond stick_color, white, (all), (all) set_bond stick_radius, 0.14, (all), (all) set sphere_scale, 0.25, (all) show sticks show spheres set sphere_scale by itself will revert to default. Here you'll get a simple VDW rapresentation. <source lang="python"> set_bond stick_color, blue, (all), (all) set_bond stick_radius, 0.3, (all), (all) set sphere_transparency, ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.