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News & Updates 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... Pml2py This script converts a pml script to a python script. See pymol-users mailing list (Subject: Convert pml script to Pymol Python script, Fri, 8 Apr 2011). <source lang="python"> from __future__ import print_function import sys from pymol import cmd, parsing def pml2py(filename, out=sys.stdout): DESCRIPTION Convert a pml script to python syntax. USAGE pml2py infile [, outfile] def quote(args): args = iter(args) for arg in args: if '=' not in arg: prefix = else: prefix, arg = arg.split('=', 1) prefix += '=' arg = arg.lstrip() yield prefix + repr(arg) class stackiter: def __init__(self, collection): self.iterator = iter(collection) self.stack = [] def __iter__(self): return self def next(self): if len(self.stack): return ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.