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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.2 has been released on April 20, 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... Stick ball ratio == Overview == The setting "stick_ball_ratio" controls the relative ratio between the radius of sticks connecting bonded atoms and the radius of the atom spheres. Note that simply setting "stick_ball, on" will result in balls with the same radius as the sticks and so will appear only slightly different (the joins will be smoother). Changing the stick_ball_ratio without setting "stick_ball, on" will -- obviously -- have no apparent effect. Settings set stick_ball_ratio, 1.5 Related set stick_ball, on # displays atoms as balls joined by sticks set stick_ball, off # displays only connected sticks Examples Open the images to actually see the details! stick_ball, off stick_ball, on stick_ball "on" with stick_ball_ratio at 1.5

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