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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMO v1.7 have all been released] today, January 14, 2014. New Plugin Bondpack is a a collection of PyMOL plugins for easy visualization of atomic bonds. New Plugin MOLE 2.0 is a new plugin for rapid analysis of biomacromolecular channels in PyMOL. 3D using Geforce PyMOL can now be visualized in 3D using Nvidia GeForce video cards (series 400+) with 120Hz monitors and Nvidia 3D Vision, this was previously only possible with Quadro video cards. New Plugin GROMACS_Plugin is a new plugin that ties together PyMOL and GROMACS. New Software CMPyMOL is a software that interactively visualizes 2D contact maps of proteins in PyMOL. New Script cgo_arrow draws an arrow between two picked atoms. Tips & Tricks Instructions for generating movie PDFs using .mpg movies from PyMOL. Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Sphere quality ==Overview== sphere_quality controls the rendering quality of sphere objects. This setting only affects sphere rendering when not using shaders. Syntax # the default value is 1 set sphere_quality, <integer> Larger values of <integer> result in higher quality sphere rendering. Values >1 may result in poor performance during real-time rotation or translation. Note: Selecting values larger than 2 with stick_ball = 1 (enabled) causes PyMol to crash in the Windows version. Examples Open the images to see rendering details. sphere_quality 0 sphere_quality 1 (default) sphere_quality 2 See Also cgo_sphere_quality

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.