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News & Updates New Setup PyMOL-open-source-windows-setup v3.1 has been released on January 20, 2025. More information under Windows Install. New Plugin PySSA aims to combine PyMOL and ColabFold to enable the prediction and analysis of 3D protein structures for the scientific end-user. v1.0 has been released on July 10, 2024. Official Release PyMOL v3.0 has been released on March 12, 2024. New Plugin CavitOmiX calculate Catalophore™ cavities, predict protein structures with OpenFold by NVIDIA-BioNeMo, ESMFold and retrieve Alphafold models 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 fellowship announced for 2022-2023 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.

Did you know... Roving delay == Description == roving_delay determines the time before updating the scene. Syntax # change roving_delay set roving_delay, number # number > 0 Usage If you are on a slow computer it might prove useful to set this value to e.g. 2 (seconds). This prevents the scene from getting updated before you reach your place of interest. Related settings roving_byres roving_cartoon roving_delay roving_detail roving_isomesh roving_isosurface roving_labels roving_lines roving_map1_level roving_map1_name roving_map2_level roving_map2_name roving_map3_level roving_map3_name roving_nb_spheres roving_nonbonded roving_origin roving_origin_z roving_origin_z_cushion roving_polar_contacts roving_polar_cutoff roving_ribbon roving_selection roving_spheres roving_sticks

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