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News & Updates 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... SelInside selInside selects all atoms of a certain type that are located within the bounding box defined by some selection. See examples. Usage # find all atoms inside the box spanned by (0,0,0) and (10,10,10) # for the example PDB, 1hpv fetch 1hpv pseudoatom b1, pos=[0,0,0] pseudoatom b2, pos=[10,10,10] selInside b1 or b2 The Code <source lang="python"> import pymol from pymol import cmd, stored from random import randint def selInside(bounding_object, target="*", radius=None): """ Selects all atoms of a given target type inside some selection that acts like a bounding box. PARAMS: bounding_object -- [PyMOL object/selection] the object/selection inside of which we want to choose atoms target -- [PyMOL selection] that defines the atoms to select. Use "solvent" to select only solvent atoms inside the selection radius -- [float] expand the box by this many angstroms on all sides RETURNS: (string) name of the selection created ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.