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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... Dump2CGO = Overview = Dumps a PyMOL object to a CGO object. The Code <source lang="python"> from pymol import cmd from pymol.cgo import * def dump2surfaceCGO(): CGOobj = [] dumpedFile = open("dump.tmp").read() for block in dumpedFile.split('\n\n'): CGOobj.append(BEGIN) CGOobj.append(TRIANGLES) for line in block.split('\n'): if line == : continue vals = line.split() CGOobj.append(NORMAL) CGOobj.append(float(vals[3])) CGOobj.append(float(vals[4])) CGOobj.append(float(vals[5])) CGOobj.append(VERTEX) CGOobj.append(float(vals[0])) CGOobj.append(float(vals[1])) CGOobj.append(float(vals[2])) CGOobj.append(END) return CGOobj def dump2meshCGO(): CGOobj = [] dumpedFile = open("dump.tmp").read() for block in dumpedFile.split('\n\n'): CGOobj.append(BEGIN) CGOobj.append(LINE_STRIP) for line in block.split('\n'): if ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.