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News & Updates New Setup PyMOL-open-source-windows-setup v3.1 has been released on January 20, 2025. More information under Windows Install. New Plugin PySSA aims to combine PyMOL and ColabFold to enable the prediction and analysis of 3D protein structures for the scientific end-user. v1.0 has been released on July 10, 2024. Official Release PyMOL v3.0 has been released on March 12, 2024. New Plugin CavitOmiX calculate Catalophore™ cavities, predict protein structures with OpenFold by NVIDIA-BioNeMo, ESMFold and retrieve Alphafold models Official Release PyMOL v2.5 has been released on May 10, 2021. Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins POSF New PyMOL fellowship announced for 2022-2023 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 New Plugin PICv is a new plugin for clustering protein-protein interactions and visualization with available data from PDBe Selection keywords New polymer.protein and polymer.nucleic selection keywords. Thanks everyone who participated in the poll! Plugin Update MOLE 2.5 is an updated version of channel analysis software in PyMOL New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons Older News See Older News.

Did you know... ColorByRMSD Type Python Module Download scripts/colorbyrmsd.py Author(s) Shivender Shandilya, Jason Vertrees, Thomas Holder License BSD-2-Clause This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo Introduction This script allows you to color two structures by Root Mean Square Deviation (RMSD). The distances between aligned C-alpha atom pairs are stored as B-factors of these residues, which are colored by a color spectrum, with blue specifying the minimum pairwise RMSD and red indicating the maximum. Unaligned residues are colored gray. Usage colorbyrmsd mobile, target [, doAlign [, doPretty [, guide [, method ]]]] Arguments mobile = string: atom selection for mobile atoms target = string: atom selection for target atoms doAlign = 0 or 1: Superpose selections before calculating distances {default: 1} doPretty = 0 or 1: Show nice representation and colors {default: 1} guide = 0 or 1: Only use C-alpha atoms {default: 1} method = align ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.