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News & Updates Plugin Update MOLE 2.5 is an updated version of channel analysis software in PyMOL 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... Contact map visualizer Type PyMOL Plugin Download plugins/contact_map_visualizer.py Author(s) Venkatramanan Krishnamani License - This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo Enhanced version of this plugin is now available at CMPyMOL The contact map visualizer plugin can link contact map images to the residues in PyMOL in a interactive way. Contact maps are pixel graphics where each protein residue corresponds to one line and one row of pixels. Thus for a 100 residue protein, such a image has 100x100 pixels. A common tool to generate such images is g_mdmat from the gromacs package. Usage contact_map_visualizer [ image_file [, selection ]] Required Dependencies pygame Tkinter (optional and usually included with PyMOL) PIL (optional, for automatically converting XPM images) Example for installing all dependencies on a Ubuntu like system: <source lang="bash"> sudo apt-get ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.