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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.3 has been released on February 11, 2019. POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 New Plugin ProBiS H2O is a new plugin for identification of conserved waters in protein structures. 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.

Did you know... Transparency == Overview == Transparency is used to adjust the transparency of Surfaces and Slices. (For other transparencies in PyMOL, see Cartoon Transparency, Sphere Transparency, and Stick Transparency. Usage set transparency, F, selection where F is a floating point number in the range [0.0 - 1.0], where selection is the selected surface to apply the change to (for examples, see below). For the value of F, 1.0 will be an invisible and 0.0 a completely solid surface. Examples Whole Surface Change the transparency of the whole surface to 50%. # show all surfaces with 50% transparency. set transparency, 0.5 Image showing partial surface transparencies Image showing 100% of the surface with 65% transparency. Selected Surface Elements Simple example showing how to do ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.