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News & Updates New Setup PyMOL-open-source-windows-setup v3.1 has been released on January 20, 2025. More information under Windows Install. New Plugin PySSA aims to combine PyMOL and ColabFold to enable the prediction and analysis of 3D protein structures for the scientific end-user. v1.0 has been released on July 10, 2024. 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... Wfmesh Type Python Script Download scripts/wfmesh.py Author(s) Dan Kulp License - This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo DESCRIPTION This script will create an object for any Wavefront(.OBJ) mesh file. This is a way to extend the number of objects you can use. Also, you have more control over the coloring, transformations, etc than the CGOs. Although there are a number of these obj files on the web, you can also easily created them with open source tools (OpenFX, Crossroads3D). It takes literally, 2 min to get an object created and then loaded into pymol. Simply open OpenFX Designer, click File->Insert->Model, then choose any of the models (or create your own of course!), then export it as .3ds file. Then open the .3ds file from Crossroads3D and export as Wavefront OBJ. createWFMesh - create a mesh object from Wavefront (*.obj) formated file IMAGES Star Wars Anyone? ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.