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News & Updates 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... Png png writes a png format image file of the current image to disk. Usage png filename[, width[, height[, dpi[, ray[, quiet]]]]] filename = string: file path to be written width = integer or string: width in pixels (integer or string without units), inches (in), or centimeters (cm). If unit suffix is given, `dpi` argument is required as well. If only one of `width` or `height` is given, the aspect ratio of the viewport is preserved. {default: 0 (current)} height = integer or string: height (see width) {default: 0 (current)} dpi = float: dots-per-inch {default -1.0 (unspecified)} ray = 0 or 1: should ray be run first {default: 0 (no)} quiet = 0 or 1: if 1, logged output is suppressed. {default: 0} Example png ~/Desktop/test.png, width=10cm, dpi=300, ray=1 PyMOL API cmd.png(string filename, int width=0, int height=0, float dpi=-1, int ray=0, int quiet=0) Comments Transparent Backgrounds Use the ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.