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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 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 scale ==Overview== This setting affects the apparent radius of spheres in the sphere representation. Default scale is set to 1.0. Syntax # set the sphere scale to size for selection. cmd.set ("sphere_scale", size=1, selection='', state=0, updates=1, log=0, quiet=1) # generally it's simpler to use the console form set sphere_scale, size, selection # you can print the current value for sphere_scale get sphere_scale size can be any floating point number, selection is the name of a selection. Examples Using 0.25 gives a nice balls&sticks representation with both lines and spheres turned on. set_bond stick_color, white, (all), (all) set_bond stick_radius, 0.14, (all), (all) set sphere_scale, 0.25, (all) show sticks show spheres set sphere_scale by itself will revert to default. Here you'll get a simple VDW rapresentation. <source lang="python"> set_bond stick_color, blue, (all), (all) set_bond stick_radius, 0.3, (all), (all) set sphere_transparency, ..→

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