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News & Updates 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... Load new B-factors Introduction Quick and simple script to replace B-factor values in a PDB structure. New B-factors are provided in an external .txt file, one per line. By default, the script will also redraw the selected molecule as cartoon putty and colour by B-factor Usage loadBfacts mol, [startaa, [source, [visual Y/N]]] Required Arguments mol = any object selection (within one single object though) Optional Arguments startaa = number of amino acid the first value in 'source' refers to (default=1) source = name of the file containing new B-factor values (default=newBfactors.txt) visual = redraws structure as cartoon_putty and displays bar with min/max values (default=Y) Limitations For its very nature, this script is not ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.