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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMO v1.7 have all been released] today, January 14, 2014. New Plugin Bondpack is a a collection of PyMOL plugins for easy visualization of atomic bonds. New Plugin MOLE 2.0 is a new plugin for rapid analysis of biomacromolecular channels in PyMOL. 3D using Geforce PyMOL can now be visualized in 3D using Nvidia GeForce video cards (series 400+) with 120Hz monitors and Nvidia 3D Vision, this was previously only possible with Quadro video cards. New Plugin GROMACS_Plugin is a new plugin that ties together PyMOL and GROMACS. New Software CMPyMOL is a software that interactively visualizes 2D contact maps of proteins in PyMOL. New Script cgo_arrow draws an arrow between two picked atoms. Tips & Tricks Instructions for generating movie PDFs using .mpg movies from PyMOL. Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Movie fade Type Python Module Download scripts/movie_fade.py Author(s) Jason Vertrees and Thomas Holder License BSD-2-Clause This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo This script will help fade in and out settings in a movie. Just specify the setting, it's initial value at an initial frame and it's ending value and frame. Usage movie_fade setting, startFrame, startVal, endFrame, endVal [, selection ] Examples To fade in sticks from fully transparent to fully opaque across 60 frames do: mset 1x60 movie_fade stick_transparency, 1, 1., 60, 0. More complex example which involves camera motion: fetch 1rx1, async=0 as cartoon show surface mset 1x80 movie.roll movie_fade transparency, 1, 0., 40, 1. movie_fade transparency, 41, 1., 80, 0. Example file: Result <source lang="python"> import movie_fade fetch 1hpv, async=0 orient format bg black show_as cartoon color marine, ss ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.