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News & Updates Gallery Updates The gallery has been updated to include a few new ideas and scripts for rendering New Script save_settings can dump all changed settings to a file Tips & Tricks Instructions for generating 3D PDFs using PyMOL. Wiki Update Wiki has been updated. Please report any problems to the sysops. New Scripts Create objects for each molecule or chain in selection with split_object and split_chains New Script Rotkit: is a collection of usefull scripts to place your dye/molecule where you want. It includes a very handy, rotation around line, function. New Script Forster-distance-calculator: Can be used as a pymol-python shortcut to calculate the Förster distance between dyes from different companies. Useful, if the user have pymol installed, but not python. This script is meant as a tool to finding the right dyes, when labelling suitable positions for the site-directed cysteine mutants. See DisplacementMap. New Script propka: Fetches the pka values for your protein from the propka server. propka generates a pymol command file that make pka atoms, color and label them according to your protein. Inspection is made easy by grouping the pka atoms in the pymol menu. Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Label The Label command controls how PyMOL draws text labels for PyMOL objects. Details Labeling is important so there are many options for your fine tuning needs. You can change the label size, label color, positioning, font, the label outline color that masks the font and much, much more. You can have PyMOL label atoms by properties or ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.