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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... Distance =Distance= distance creates a new distance object between two selections. It will display all distances within the cutoff. Distance is also used to make hydrogen bonds. Calling distance without arguments will show distances between selections (pk1) and (pk1), which can be set in editing mode or using the PkAt mouse action (usually CTRL-middle-click). Note: For interactive use, the measurement wizard (from the PyMOL menu) makes measuring distances easier than using the distance command. If you want to measure distance and avoid creating a distance object, use Get Distance or Distancetoatom. Usage distance [ name [, selection1 [, selection2 [, cutoff [, mode ]]]]] name string: name of the distance object to create selection1 string: first atom selection selection2 string: ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.