News & Updates
| New Script
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See BiologicalUnit, for a workaround to the buggy Symexp command or if you just want to learn more about symmetry expansion in PyMOL.
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| New Script
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See Supercell, the new script for making XxYxZ supercells.
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| New Script
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See Split_Object_Along_Axis, for a script that allows one to select a bond, and then generate 2 selections: one for the selection of all atoms that are on one side of this bond, and the other selection for the atoms on the other side of the bond.
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| New Script
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See Consistent_View/_Map_Inspect, which is a toolkit for rapidly inspecting multiple maps and models.
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| Server updates
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The underlying servers upon which the PyMOLWiki runs were upgraded over the weekend. We are now fully functional. A deep thanks to BitGnome for donating time and hardware for the PyMOL project.
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| fetch_host setting
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Fetch_Host has been added to allow users to download PDBs from their PDB server (pdb, pdb euro, or pdb japan) of choice.
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| Fetch
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Fetch has been updated to also load electron density maps.
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| Schrodinger Buys PyMOL
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Schrodinger has purchased PyMOL. Development, support and open-source fun to continue! Read about the sale.
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| User Movie
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One of our users has posted another interesting movie, images from which were created with PyMOL.
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| New setting
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surface_cavity_mode to change how PyMOL displays cavities.
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| Search fixed.
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Thanks to a eagle-eyed user, our search has been fixed. Please let us know if you have any search-related problems.
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| New Command
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Cache—stores information on structures, so we don't have to recompute them.
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| Warren
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News about Warren DeLano's passing may be read on Warren's memorial page.
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| Setting
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Fetch_Path—Sets the default path for the fetch command.
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| New Script
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SelInside—Creates a custom selection of all atoms spatially inside some user-defined box.
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Did you know...
set_view sets viewing information for the current scene, including the rotation matrix, position, origin of rotation, clipping planes, and the orthoscopic flag.
This command is extremely useful for making movies. One may set up the scene to be rendered, then save the exact orientation, with respect to the camera, of the scene using, the Get_View command. The output from the Get_View command may then be used by the set_view ..→
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 A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.
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