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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.2 has been released on April 20, 2016. New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons New Plugin LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm. 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... Expand To Surface = Overview = This little script will color the surface of your protein the same color as the b-factors from the alpha carbons of each amino acid. This script is useful when you want to color a protein by the b-factor column, but all you have in the b-factor for each alpha carbon. If you try to color a surface based only on the alpha carbon b-factors, then the surface isn't rendered as you typically want. Note: This script, once run in PyMOL, is called e2s. See examples, below. Example # in PyMOL type the following # fetch 1cll fetch 1cll # load your b-factor column; for "1cll" you can simulate fake data # by writing 144 random integers to /tmp/bb. If you have some real # data, then put that there. 1 row for each alpha carbon. f = open('/tmp/bb', 'r').readlines(); # alter the alpha carbon coords alter *,b=0 alter n. CA, b=f.pop(0) # color the surface e2s 1cll You can make fake data in a shell by quickly executing: <source lang="python"> in a BASH shell, type the ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.