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News & Updates Official Release [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.

Did you know... Config Mouse Config_mouse allows one to change the context the mouse; say for example if it has two button instead of three (so the user doesn't have to set the 2-Button Viewing Mode). USAGE If you have a 2-Button mouse and don't want to have to set it every time, add the following line to your pymolrc file. config_mouse two_button # put the mouse in the cool-new movie-enabling mode config_mouse three_button_motions Three-Button Motions Mode The Three_Button_Motions mouse configuration mode has been added to PyMOL. To use it, first prepare the mouse mode: # put the mouse in the cool-new movie-enabling mode config_mouse three_button_motions and then click on the mouse-panel (lower right hand side of PyMOL window) until you see a boxed "M" appear in the openGL menu window above. (It should appear after the "C" for Color). See Also Three_Button_Motions

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.