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News & Updates POSF PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program accepting applications for 2018-2019 New Plugin ProBiS H2O is a new plugin for identification of conserved waters in protein structures. Official Release PyMOL v2.1 has been released on March 13, 2018. 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 New Plugin LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm. 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.