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News & Updates
Official Release	PyMOL v1.8.2 has been released on April 20, 2016.
New Script	dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons
New Plugin	LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm.
Official Release	PyMOL v1.8.0 has been released on Nov 18, 2015.
PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship	Schrödinger is now accepting applications for the PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program! Details on http://pymol.org/fellowship
Official Release	PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7.6 have all been released on May 4, 2015.
New Plugin	PyANM is a new plugin for easier Anisotropic Network Model (ANM) building and visualising in PyMOL.
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.
Older News	See Older News.

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Scene buttons = Overview = This setting controls whether or not PyMOL displays Scene_buttons or openGL buttons in the lower left hand corner that allows interaction with scenes. frame Syntax # turn on scene buttons set scene_buttons, 1 # turn off scene buttons set scene_buttons, 0 Usage Once these are enabled you can interact with them by using the mouse: left-button will select a scene middle-button will rove over the scenes (to see this, load a bunch of scenes and then middle-click on the first and then drag down) right-button will move a scene in the stack (drag-and-drop).

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.

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