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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... NOTOC NOEDITSECTION Set set is one of the most utilized commands. PyMOL representations, states, options, etc. are changed with set. Briefly, set changes one of the PyMOL state variables. Currently there are over 600 PyMOL settings! USAGE # set '''name''' to '''value''' set name, [,value [,object-or-selection [,state ]]] # alternative way to do the above. set name = value # (DEPRECATED) PYMOL API cmd.set ( string name, string value=1, string selection='', int state=0, int updates=1, quiet=1) EXAMPLES set surface_color, red set ray_trace_mode, 3 set ribbon_width, 4 # set the label size to 2Ang. set label_size, -2 NOTES The default behavior (with a blank selection) changes the global settings database. If the selection is 'all', then the settings database in all individual objects will be changed. Likewise, for a given object, if state is zero, then the object database will be modified. Otherwise, the settings database for the indicated state within the object will be modified. If a selection is provided, then all objects in the selection will be affected. SEE ALSO Get {{Extension DPL}}

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.