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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.2 has been released on April 20, 2016. New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons New Plugin LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm. Official Release PyMOL v1.8.0 has been released on Nov 18, 2015. PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship Schrödinger is now accepting applications for the PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program! Details on http://pymol.org/fellowship Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7.6 have all been released on May 4, 2015. New Plugin PyANM is a new plugin for easier Anisotropic Network Model (ANM) building and visualising in PyMOL. New Plugin Bondpack is 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. Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Fork spawn launches a Python script in a new thread which will run concurrently with the PyMOL interpreter. It can be run in its own namespace (like a Python module, default), a local name space, or in the global namespace. fork is an alias for spawn. USAGE spawn python-script [, ( local | global | module | main | private )] PYMOL API Not directly available. Instead, use cmd.do("spawn ..."). NOTES The default mode for spawn is "module". Due to an idiosyncracy in Pickle, you can not pickle objects directly created at the main level in a script run as "module", (because the pickled object becomes dependent on that module). Workaround: delegate construction to an imported module. The best way to spawn processes at startup is to use the -l option (see "help launching"). SEE ALSO run

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.