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News & Updates 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... Uniprot features Type Python Module Download uniprot_features.py Author(s) Thomas Holder License BSD-2-Clause This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo uniprot_features fetches the sequence annotation (features) from uniprot.org and create named selections for each feature. Requires residue numbering (resi) to match uniprot sequence! Usage uniprot_features uniprot_id [, selection [, withss [, prefix ]]] Example Show the active site of human pepsin A: fetch 1flh, async=0 # fix residue numbering to match uniprot sequence alter all, resi=resv+62 # create selections uniprot_features PEPA4_HUMAN # show sticks for active site as cartoon set cartoon_side_chain_helper show sticks, feature_active_site zoom feature_active_site See also select_sites

A Random PyMOL-generated Cover. See Covers.