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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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Texture fonts = Overivew = Not sure exactly what this does. The reason this page exists is to let the users know that this setting can affect rendering performance in PyMOL. To test how this affects your PyMOL. Turn on the frames per second (FPS) meter. Load a complex scene turn on the sequence viewer (Seq_View) and then rotate the molecule. While doing this look at the maximum frame rate. Then turn on Texture_fonts and rotate the scene while watching the frame rate. Here are my example numbers: texture_fonts off max = 142 FPS texture_fonts on max = 363 FPS That's a huge difference. Syntax # turn on texture fonts set texture_fonts, 1

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.

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