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News & Updates 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... Hide hide conceals atom and bond representations for a certain selection or other graphical objects like distances. Some normal scene, notice the waters shown as spheres hide spheres issues and the spheres are now hidden. The available representations are: lines spheres mesh ribbon cartoon sticks dots surface labels nonbonded nb_spheres USAGE hide representation [,object] hide representation [,(selection)] hide (selection) PYMOL API cmd.hide( string representation="", string selection="") EXAMPLES # hides all lines hide lines,all # hides all ribbons hide ribbon # hides all distances hide dashes # hides sticks in protA and all residues that aren't in the range of 40-65 hide sticks, protA and not i. 40-65 # hide hydrogen atoms hide (hydro) # or hide (h.) SEE ALSO Show, Enable, Disable, Suspend_updates ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.