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News & Updates
Official Release	PyMOL v2.5 has been released on May 10, 2021.
Python 3	New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins
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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Label color Label colors and sized changed, per object. Overview Sets the color that PyMol uses to draws/renders labels. This can be set for all objects/selections or for one in particular. Syntax # set object's color to colorName set label_color, colorName, object # example showing two different objects # each with their own coloring. pseudoatom foo label foo, "foo" pseudoatom another label another, "Another label" set label_color, green, foo set label_color, lightpink, another translate [0, -10, 0], object=another set label_size, -2 zoom foo or another, 10 User Comments If the coloring of the labels is not exactly the same as you'd expect (say black turns out grey, or red turns out pink), then try the following settings: unset depth_cue unset ray_label_specular See Also Color_Values, Category:Coloring

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.

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