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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.

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Cartoon oval quality == Overview == Only relevent when oval (default) helices is turned on, see Cartoon_Helix_Settings. set cartoon_oval_quality defines the visual quality (the number of points defining the oval) of the helix. The default setting is generally optimal, increasing improves quality marginally, where as quality drops significantly if the value is decreased a lot (see the black edges below). The difference between 100 and greater values is negligible. Syntax set cartoon_oval_quality, <number> #default setting is 10 Example cartoon_oval_quality 3 cartoon_oval_quality 10 (default) cartoon_oval_quality 1000

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.

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