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News & Updates New Plugin Bondpack is a 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. New Plugin GROMACS_Plugin is a new plugin that ties together PyMOL and GROMACS. New Software CMPyMOL is a software that interactively visualizes 2D contact maps of proteins in PyMOL. New Script cgo_arrow draws an arrow between two picked atoms. Tips & Tricks Instructions for generating movie PDFs using .mpg movies from PyMOL. Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Load load reads several file formats. The file extension is used to determine the format. PDB files must end in ".pdb", MOL files must end in ".mol", Macromodel files must end in ".mmod", XPLOR maps must end in ".xplor", CCP4 maps must end in ".ccp4", Raster3D input (Molscript output) must end in ".r3d", PyMOL session files must end in ".pse", and pickled ChemPy models with a ".pkl" can also be directly read. If an object is specified, then the file is loaded into that object. Otherwise, an object is created with the same name as the file prefix. USAGE load filename [,object [,state [,format [,finish [,discrete [,multiplex ]]]]]] PYMOL API cmd.load( filename [,object [,state [,format [,finish [,discrete [,multiplex ]]]]]] ) ARGUMENTS filename : string Path or URL to the file to load. object : string Name of Pymol object to store the structure in. Defaults to the filename prefix. state : integer State number to store ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.