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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... B2transparency Type Python Module Download scripts/b2transparency.py Author(s) Thomas Holder License BSD-2-Clause This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo b2transparency can set transparency settings like transparency or sphere_transparency for each atom scaled by b-factor (or any other numeric atomic property). Usage b2transparency [ selection [, setting [, minimum [, maximum [, var ]]]]] Example # some dummy molecule with increasing b-factor along the chain fab AAAAAAAAAAAAA alter all, b=resv b2transparency all as sticks show surface set surface_color, gray See Also spectrum

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.