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News & Updates 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... Origin origin sets the center of rotation about a selection. If an object name is specified, it can be used to set the center of rotation for the object's TTT matrix. USAGE origin selection [, object [,position, [, state]]] origin (selection) origin position=[1.0,2.0,3.0] PYMOL API cmd.origin( string object-or-selection ) NOTES state = 0 (default) use all coordinate states state = -1 use only coordinates for the current state state > 0 use coordinates for a specific state SEE ALSO Zoom, Orient, Reset Example This example puts the camera 'inside' a protein near the ligand and turns the camera 360 degrees about that location. <source lang="python"> load $TUT/1hpv.pdb set field_of_view, 45 zoom organic orient organic show stick, polymer show surface set surface_color, white set transparency, 0.5 clip slab, 30 set line_width, 5 cmd.move("z",-cmd.get_view()[11]) python def spin(): from pymol ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.