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News & Updates New Plugin LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm. Official Release PyMOL v1.8.0 has been released on Nov 18, 2015. PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship Schrödinger is now accepting applications for the PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program! Details on http://pymol.org/fellowship Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7.6 have all been released on May 4, 2015. 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... Opaque background = Overview = This setting controls how PyMOL renders the background. If this opaque setting is on then the background is drawn as a solid color depending on your background color setting. If this is turned off, the background is drawn as transparent. Transparent backgrounds allow you to post your rendered image on a background of any color without having to first to background subtraction. This is great for posters or publications. It also works well when your presentation background is not simply black or white. In the PyMOL window a transparent background is shown as a checkerboard, but in your final image it will really be transparent. Syntax # set it on or off # solid background set opaque_background, on # transparent background set opaque_background, off See Also Ray

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.