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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... Modevectors Type Python Script Download modevectors.py Author(s) Sean M. Law License - This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo DESCRIPTION Example showing modevectors in action. (See Examples below). modevectors.py is a PyMol script that was originally written to visualize results obtained from Normal Mode Analysis (NMA) by drawing arrows or vectors from a starting structure to a final structure. However, this script can be used to visualize the direction of motion between two specified states (e.g. targeted MD, comparing open and closed structures, etc). The strength of this script is that the arrows are highly customizable with numerous options to choose from (see script below). It is important to note that the two states MUST be identical except for the X, Y, and Z coordinates. That is, you cannot draw vectors between homologous structures. The default settings sets the background to white and displays the arrows along with the first object frame (in cartoon ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.