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News & Updates Selection keywords New polymer.protein and polymer.nucleic selection keywords. Thanks everyone who participated in the poll! Official Release PyMOL v2.0 has been released on September 20, 2017. 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... Settings PyMOL is incredibly useful because of its flexibility. Almost any setting can be tweaked to give you the ability to make your scenes appear just as you want. Each command usually comes with one or more settings. For example, the ray command comes with 50 settings! List of settings Below you will find the list of all known settings (as of this writing). Settings are added all the time, so this list should be updated somehow. Also, see all documented settings. If you feel like documenting them, and what they do, feel free. A active_selections all_states ambient angle_color angle_label_position angle_size animation animation_duration antialias async_builds ati_bugs atom_name_wildcard auto_classify_atoms auto_color auto_copy_images auto_defer_builds auto_dss auto_hide_selections auto_indicate_flags auto_number_selections auto_remove_hydrogens auto_rename_duplicate_objects auto_sculpt ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.