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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... Volume Volume visualization of electron density for PDB 1oky Volume panel for the 1oky volume example. It has the iso-levels on the x-axis and the opacity (1.0 - transparency) on the y-axis. Volume creates a new volume object from a map object. The data (3D scalar fields) are shown as a true 3D object using coloring and transparencies defined by the user to illustrate the data values. This technique supports single and multiple isosurfaces. Usage volume name, map [, ramp [, selection [, buffer [, state [, carve ]]]]] Arguments name = the name for the new volume object. map = the name of the map object to use for computing the volume. ramp = str: named color ramp {default: } selection = an atom selection about which to display the mesh with an additional "buffer" (if provided). carve = a radius about each atom in the selection for which to include density. If "carve" is not provided, then the whole brick is displayed. == ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.