Main Page

hosted by

Welcome to the PyMOL Wiki!

The community-run support site for the PyMOL molecular viewer.

To request a new account, email SBGrid at: accounts (@) sbgrid dot org

Quick Links

Tutorials	Table of Contents	Commands
Script Library	Plugins	FAQ
Gallery | Covers	PyMOL Cheat Sheet (PDF)	Getting Help

News & Updates POSF New PyMOL fellows announced for 2018-2019 Tutorial Plugins Tutorial updated for PyQt5 Official Release PyMOL v2.2 has been released on July 24, 2018. New Plugin ProBiS H2O is a new plugin for identification of conserved waters in protein structures. 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... 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.