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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.4 has been released on May 20, 2020. Python 3 New Python 3 compatibility guide for scripts and plugins POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019 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... Label font id The label_font_id setting sets the typeface (font family) for atom labels. Syntax # use "Serif Bold" font family set label_font_id, 10 Available Font Families Font IDs 0-4 were fixed size GLUT fonts, their support was dropped in PyMOL 1.6. Name label_font_id Sans 5 Sans Oblique 6 Sans Bold 7 Sans Bold Oblique 8 Serif 9 Serif Oblique 17 Serif Bold 10 Serif Bold Oblique 18 Mono 11 Mono Oblique 12 Mono Bold 13 Mono Bold Oblique 14 Gentium Roman 15 Gentium Italic 16 Special Characters Several Unicode characters are supported. They can be entered with unicode literals as 4-digit hexadecimal escape sequences. Example characters (find the code for your character at Unicode Charts): ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.