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News & Updates 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... Ribbon color ==Overview== Ribbon_color allows one to explicitly state the color to be applied to a ribbon object. Syntax # set it to a color set ribbon_color, color # examples: # default auto-cycles the color for each new object set ribbon_color, marine # apply green to the ribbon only for object obj01 set ribbon_color, green /obj01 # apply orange to the ribbon only for chain B of object obj01; NB: not fully enabled until version 1.0 set ribbon_color, orange /obj01//B Examples ribbon_color green ribbon_color marine two chains in same object with different colors Advanced details Some notes on general Set syntax (From PyMOL "help set"): DESCRIPTION "set" changes one of the PyMOL state variables, USAGE set name, [,value [,object-or-selection [,state ]]] set name = value # (DEPRECATED) PYMOL API cmd.set ( string name, string value=1, string ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.