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News & Updates
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.

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Color color sets the color of an object or an atom selection to a predefined, named color, an RGB hex color, or a color ramp. For an overview of predefined colors, see Color Values. For a script that enumerates all the colors see, List_Colors. If you want to define your own colors, see Set_Color. Usage color color-name color color-name, object-name color color-name, (selection) Arguments color-name = str or int: named color, index of a named color, `0xRRGGBB` string, `0x40RRGGBB` integer, name of a ramp object, or special value `atomic` object-name = str: Name of an object or name pattern (with Asterisk (`*`)) which matches multiple objects. Changes the object color, and if it is a molecular object, also the color of all atoms. {default: all} selection = str: atom selection, this is any expression which is not a valid object pattern. E.g. ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.

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