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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... Cartoon dumbbell radius == Overview == Only relavent when fancy helices is turned on, see Cartoon_Helix_Settings set cartoon_dumbbell_radius defines the radius of the dumbbell ends when the fancy helices setting has been engaged Setting to 0.1 eliminates the dumbbell shape with other settings to defaults, whereas setting <0.1 reveals interior space of the fancy helix Syntax set cartoon_dumbbell_radius, <number> #default setting is 0.15 Adjust this value or that of cartoon_dumbbell_width to remove the bulge at the edges of a fancy helix Example cartoon_dumbbell_radius 0 cartoon_dumbbell_radius 0.1 cartoon_dumbbell_radius 0.15 (default) cartoon_dumbbell_radius 0.4

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.