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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.2 has been released on April 20, 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... CgoCircle = Overview = This script will create a CGO circle with the origin at the specified X,Y,Z coordinates. Also, you can specify the radius and the colors. See the examples. If you want to draw a circle around an object or selection, use circleSelection. If you want pure flexibility over your circle then use cgoCircle. There are two functions here: cgoCircle — creates a CGO circle at some user-specified location circleSelection —creates a circle around the named object or selection. Drawn circle. CGO circle. Circles of specified radius. Circle with specified width. Circle with a line width of 150. Pores anyone? Usage <source lang="python"> import math import pymol from pymol.cgo import * import random def cgoCircle(x, y, z, r=8.0, cr=1.0, cg=0.4, cb=0.8, w=2.0): """ Create a CGO circle PARAMS x, y, z X, Y ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.