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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.

Commands

Commands are functions in pymol that are used for viewing, manipulating, and storing molecules.

You can get a list of some common commands by typing "help commands" into the pymol command line. Typing this in to version 1.1r1 returns the following:


   INPUT/OUTPUT  load      save      delete    quit
   VIEW          turn      move      clip      rock
                 show      hide      enable    disable
                 reset     refresh   rebuild   
                 zoom      origin    orient   
                 view      get_view  set_view
   MOVIES        mplay     mstop     mset      mdo
                 mpng      mmatrix   frame
                 rewind    middle    ending
                 forward   backward
   IMAGING       png       mpng
   RAY TRACING   ray       
   MAPS          isomesh   isodot
   DISPLAY       cls       viewport  splash    
   SELECTIONS    select    mask   
   SETTINGS      set       button
   ATOMS         alter     alter_state 
   EDITING       create    ..→