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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v2.5 has been released on May 10, 2021. 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... Load new B-factors Introduction Quick and simple script to replace B-factor values in a PDB structure. New B-factors are provided in an external .txt file, one per line. By default, the script will also redraw the selected molecule as cartoon putty and colour by B-factor Usage loadBfacts mol, [startaa, [source, [visual Y/N]]] Required Arguments mol = any object selection (within one single object though) Optional Arguments startaa = number of amino acid the first value in 'source' refers to (default=1) source = name of the file containing new B-factor values (default=newBfactors.txt) visual = redraws structure as cartoon_putty and displays bar with min/max values (default=Y) Limitations For its very nature, this script is not ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.