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News & Updates 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... Label font id The label_font_id setting sets the typeface (font family) for atom labels. Syntax # use "Serif Bold" font family set label_font_id, 10 Available Font Families Font IDs 0-4 were fixed size GLUT fonts, their support was dropped in PyMOL 1.6. Name label_font_id Sans 5 Sans Oblique 6 Sans Bold 7 Sans Bold Oblique 8 Serif 9 Serif Oblique 17 Serif Bold 10 Serif Bold Oblique 18 Mono 11 Mono Oblique 12 Mono Bold 13 Mono Bold Oblique 14 Gentium Roman 15 Gentium Italic 16 Special Characters Several Unicode characters are supported. They can be entered with unicode literals as 4-digit hexadecimal escape sequences. Example characters (find the code for your character at Unicode Charts): ..→

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.