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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.4 has been released on May 20, 2020. Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins Official Release PyMOL v2.3 has been released on February 11, 2019. POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 New Plugin PICv is a new plugin for clustering protein-protein interactions and visualization with available data from PDBe Selection keywords New polymer.protein and polymer.nucleic selection keywords. Thanks everyone who participated in the poll! Plugin Update MOLE 2.5 is an updated version of channel analysis software in PyMOL New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Viewport viewport changes the size of the viewing port--the visible openGL window (and thus the size of all png files subsequently output). No API command can reliably retrieve the viewport dimensions under all circumstances. However, it is possible to obtain the dimensions using a third party image viewer like Gimp or OS X Preview: Save the current view as a png file ("png imagename.png"). Determine the image dimensions using a viewer program. These dimensions can be applied directly using the viewport command or the API. USAGE viewport width, height PYMOL API cmd.viewport(int width, int height)

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.