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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... Origin origin sets the center of rotation about a selection. If an object name is specified, it can be used to set the center of rotation for the object's TTT matrix. USAGE origin selection [, object [,position, [, state]]] origin (selection) origin position=[1.0,2.0,3.0] PYMOL API cmd.origin( string object-or-selection ) NOTES state = 0 (default) use all coordinate states state = -1 use only coordinates for the current state state > 0 use coordinates for a specific state SEE ALSO Zoom, Orient, Reset Example This example puts the camera 'inside' a protein near the ligand and turns the camera 360 degrees about that location. <source lang="python"> load $TUT/1hpv.pdb set field_of_view, 45 zoom organic orient organic show stick, polymer show surface set surface_color, white set transparency, 0.5 clip slab, 30 set line_width, 5 cmd.move("z",-cmd.get_view()[11]) python def spin(): from pymol ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.