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News & Updates 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 fellows announced for 2018-2019 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... Movie fade Type Python Module Download movie_fade.py Author(s) Jason Vertrees and Thomas Holder License BSD-2-Clause This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo This script will help fade in and out settings in a movie. Just specify the setting, it's initial value at an initial frame and it's ending value and frame. Usage movie_fade setting, startFrame, startVal, endFrame, endVal [, selection ] Examples To fade in sticks from fully transparent to fully opaque across 60 frames do: mset 1x60 movie_fade stick_transparency, 1, 1., 60, 0. More complex example which involves camera motion: fetch 1rx1, async=0 as cartoon show surface mset 1x80 movie.roll movie_fade transparency, 1, 0., 40, 1. movie_fade transparency, 41, 1., 80, 0. Example file: Result <source lang="python"> import movie_fade fetch 1hpv, async=0 orient format bg black show_as cartoon color marine, ss s color ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.