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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... Draw Showing Draw in Action Draw creates an oversized and antialiased OpenGL image using the current window. It's like Ray but not ray traced. Also, as now with Ray the oversized images are scaled and shown in the viewer window. As Draw doesn't ray trace the shadows of the scene, it is far faster than ray. Usage draw [ width [, height [, antialias ]]] Examples draw 1600 will create an 1600-pixel wide image with an aspect ratio equal to that of the current screen. draw 2000, 1500, 0 will create a 2000 by 1500 pixel image with antialiasing disabled draw 600, 400, 2 will create a 600 by 500 pixel image with maximum (16X) antialiasing Match ray tracing appearance Since PyMOL 1.6, all "line"-type representations can be rendered as cylinders if shaders are available and all *_as_cylinders settings are set. Example: set line_as_cylinders set nonbonded_as_cylinders set ribbon_as_cylinders set mesh_as_cylinders set dash_as_cylinders ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.