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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v3.0 has been released on March 12, 2024. New Plugin CavitOmiX calculate Catalophore™ cavities, predict protein structures with OpenFold by NVIDIA-BioNeMo, ESMFold and retrieve Alphafold models Official Release PyMOL v2.5 has been released on May 10, 2021. Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins POSF New PyMOL fellowship announced for 2022-2023 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... Select sites Type Python Script Download select_sites.py Author(s) Thomas Holder & Troels Linnet License BSD-2-Clause This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo select_sites make named selections from SITE, LINK, SSBOND, HET records. A super fast way to annotate the protein, according to the authors input i pdb file. See: http://www.wwpdb.org/procedure.html#toc_10 For instance, trypsin (http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/files/1SGT.pdb?headerOnly=YES): SITE 1 CAT 3 HIS A 57 ASP A 102 SER A 195 SITE 1 AC1 6 ASP A 165 ALA A 177A GLU A 180 GLU A 230 SITE 2 AC1 6 HOH A 259 HOH A 261 This requires that the authors have performed annotation in the pdb file. Usage import select_sites select_sites [ selection [, filename [, prefix [, nice [, quiet ]]]]] nice = 0 or 1: make colored sticks representation for sites {default :1} Example fetch 1sgt, async=0 import select_sites select_sites Or fetch and select_sites in one ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.