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News & Updates 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... Transparency == Overview == Transparency is used to adjust the transparency of Surfaces and Slices. (For other transparencies in PyMOL, see Cartoon Transparency, Sphere Transparency, and Stick Transparency. Usage set transparency, F, selection where F is a floating point number in the range [0.0 - 1.0], where selection is the selected surface to apply the change to (for examples, see below). For the value of F, 1.0 will be an invisible and 0.0 a completely solid surface. Examples Whole Surface Change the transparency of the whole surface to 50%. # show all surfaces with 50% transparency. set transparency, 0.5 Image showing partial surface transparencies Image showing 100% of the surface with 65% transparency. Selected Surface Elements Simple example showing how to do ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.