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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... Ray shadows === OVERVIEW === The ray_shadows setting determines whether or not PyMOL will ray trace shadows. This is also related to the ray_shadow setting. SYNTAX # turn on ray traced shadows set ray_shadows, on set ray_shadows, 1 # turn off ray traced shadows set ray_shadows, off set ray_shadows, 0 PYMOL API cmd.set('ray_shadows','on') cmd.set('ray_shadows','off') EXAMPLES To illustrate the difference, look at the two following images: Ray_shadow turned off. Click on the image to see the full detail. Ray_shadow turned on. Click on the image to see the full detail.

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.