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News & Updates 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... Color color sets the color of an object or an atom selection to a predefined, named color, an RGB hex color, or a color ramp. For an overview of predefined colors, see Color Values. For a script that enumerates all the colors see, List_Colors. If you want to define your own colors, see Set_Color. Usage color color-name color color-name, object-name color color-name, (selection) Arguments color-name = str or int: named color, index of a named color, 0xRRGGBB string, 0x40RRGGBB integer, name of a ramp object, or special value atomic object-name = str: Name of an object or name pattern (with Asterisk (*)) which matches multiple objects. Changes the object color, and if it is a molecular object, also the color of all atoms. {default: all} selection = str: atom selection, this is any expression which is not a valid object pattern. E.g. ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.