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News & Updates 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... Mouse modes Add the code below to the file mouse_modes.py and run it from within pymol. After you run it, click on the mouse mode indicator to cycle it at least one time in order to get the new bindings. Replace ['three_button_viewing'] by ['three_button_editing'] to edit the 3-Button Editing mode. mouse_modes.py <source lang="python"> from pymol.controlling import ring_dict,mode_name_dict,mode_dict redefine the three_button_viewing mode mode_name_dict['three_button_viewing'] = 'My 3-But View' mode_dict['three_button_viewing'] = ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.