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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... Config Mouse Config_mouse allows one to change the context the mouse; say for example if it has two button instead of three (so the user doesn't have to set the 2-Button Viewing Mode). USAGE If you have a 2-Button mouse and don't want to have to set it every time, add the following line to your pymolrc file. config_mouse two_button # put the mouse in the cool-new movie-enabling mode config_mouse three_button_motions Three-Button Motions Mode The Three_Button_Motions mouse configuration mode has been added to PyMOL. To use it, first prepare the mouse mode: # put the mouse in the cool-new movie-enabling mode config_mouse three_button_motions and then click on the mouse-panel (lower right hand side of PyMOL window) until you see a boxed "M" appear in the openGL menu window above. (It should appear after the "C" for Color). See Also Three_Button_Motions

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.