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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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Ambient == Overview == Setting Ambient controls the amount of ambient light. Syntax # default 0.1 set ambient, <number> Example Ambient being set from 0 to 1. ambient -0.4 ambient 0.1 (default) ambient 0.6

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.

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