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News & Updates Selection keywords New polymer.protein and polymer.nucleic selection keywords. Thanks everyone who participated in the poll! 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... Draw Showing Draw in Action Draw creates an oversized and antialiased OpenGL image using the current window. It's like Ray but not ray traced. Also, as now with Ray the oversized images are scaled and shown in the viewer window. As Draw doesn't ray trace the shadows of the scene, it is far faster than ray. Usage draw [ width [, height [, antialias ]]] Examples draw 1600 will create an 1600-pixel wide image with an aspect ratio equal to that of the current screen. draw 2000, 1500, 0 will create a 2000 by 1500 pixel image with antialiasing disabled draw 600, 400, 2 will create a 600 by 500 pixel image with maximum (16X) antialiasing Match ray tracing appearance Since PyMOL 1.6, all "line"-type representations can be rendered as cylinders if shaders are available and all *_as_cylinders settings are set. Example: set line_as_cylinders set nonbonded_as_cylinders set ribbon_as_cylinders set mesh_as_cylinders set dash_as_cylinders ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.