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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.0 has been released on September 20, 2017. Plugin Update MOLE 2.5 is an updated version of channel analysis software in PyMOL Official Release PyMOL v1.8.6 has been released on March 9, 2017. Official Release PyMOL v1.8.4 has been released on October 4, 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... Surface carve selection Animation with a moving pseudoatom as the surface_carve_selection With the surface_carve_selection and surface_carve_cutoff settings, the visibility of a molecular surface can be limited to the proximity of an atom selection. Unlike when showing surface representation only for a subset of atoms, the visibility is controlled on the vertex (surface point) level, not the atom level. The value of surface_carve_selection must be a named selection (created with select), it cannot be a selection expression (e.g. "chain A" won't work). Example Visibility control on the vertex level. Hide surface points which are more than 5 Angstrom away from carvesele: fetch 1rx1, async=0 as cartoon select carvesele, organic set surface_carve_selection, carvesele set surface_carve_cutoff, 5 show surface show sticks, carvesele Compare to visibility control on the atom level. Hide surface for atoms which are more ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.