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News & Updates
Poll	New protein/nucleic selection keywords for PyMOL - Tell us what you think!
Official Release	PyMOL v2.0 has been released on September 20, 2017.
Plugin Update	MOLE 2.5 is an updated version of channel analysis software in PyMOL
Official Release	PyMOL v1.8.6 has been released on March 9, 2017.
Official Release	PyMOL v1.8.4 has been released on October 4, 2016.
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.
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.

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Ray opaque background == Overview == This setting changes how PyMol treats the background. If this option is ON then the background is whatever you specify -- like black or white; however, if the setting is OFF, then the background will be treated as a transparent alpha channel. Settings Note: turning this setting off creates the transparent backgrounds. # turn on transparent alpha channel set ray_opaque_background, off Examples ray_opaque_background set to 0. The image from PyMOL is shown over a checkerboard. ray_opaque_background set to 1. The image from PyMOL is shown over a checkerboard, however because the background is opaque, the checkerboard underneath does not show through.

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