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News & Updates
Official Release	PyMOL v2.4 has been released on May 20, 2020.
Python 3	New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins
Official Release	PyMOL v2.3 has been released on February 11, 2019.
POSF	New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019
Tutorial	Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5
New Plugin	PICv is a new plugin for clustering protein-protein interactions and visualization with available data from PDBe
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
Older News	See Older News.

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%PAGE% = Overview = This setting determines how much refinement PyMOL uses in rendering ellipsoids. Other representations have similar settings. The most often used is Surface_quality. This set to 0 is a rough approximation. Higher values, like 1, 2, 3 make truer representations. Syntax # set the quality to some positive integer set ellipsoid_quality, int # for example, turn up the quality for rendering set ellipsoid_quailty, 3 See Also Ray, Surface_Quality

[[%PAGE%|thumb|185px|A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.]]

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