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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.6 has been released on March 9, 2017. Official Release PyMOL v1.8.4 has been released on October 4, 2016. 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. 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... Mesh negative visible If the mesh_negative_visible setting is on, then an isomesh at iso level 3.0 will in addition show the -3.0 contour. The color of the negative contour is defined by the mesh_negative_color setting. The color of the positive contour is defined with the color command, or with the mesh_color setting. The surface_negative_visible and surface_negative_color settings control the same behavior for isosurface objects. Since PyMOL 1.8.4 the negative color can be controlled from the color menu ("C > negative > ..."). Example Show the +/- 3 sigma iso-level mesh ("wire-frame") of a difference density map. fetch 1ubq, diffmap, type=fofc, async=0 isomesh diffmesh, diffmap, 3.0 color green, diffmesh set mesh_negative_color, red set mesh_negative_visible Same, but with a closed surface: fetch 1ubq, diffmap, type=fofc, async=0 isosurface diffsurf, diffmap, 3.0 color green, diffsurf set surface_negative_color, red set surface_negative_visible Color Menu <gallery heights="250px" ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.