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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.4 has been released on October 4, 2016. New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons New Plugin LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm. Official Release PyMOL v1.8.0 has been released on Nov 18, 2015. PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship Schrödinger is now accepting applications for the PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program! Details on http://pymol.org/fellowship Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7.6 have all been released on May 4, 2015. New Plugin PyANM is a new plugin for easier Anisotropic Network Model (ANM) building and visualising in PyMOL. 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. 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.