PyMol: A beautiful open-source software for molecular visualization
Tuesday, August 16, 2005PyMol is here to grow.
PyMOL
A free and open-source molecular graphics system for visualization, animation, editing, and publication-quality imagery. PyMOL is scriptable and can be extended using the Python language. Supports Windows, Mac OSX, Unix, and Linux.
Image Galleary
Manual
Good Tutorial for new users
PyMOL Wiki
PyMOL users Group
Useful PyMOL Scripts
From PyMOL Introduction page:
PyMOL is a molecular graphics system with an embedded Python interpreter designed for real-time visualization and rapid generation of high-quality molecular graphics images and animations. It can also perform many other valuable tasks (such as editing PDB files) to assist you in your research.
The extensible core PyMOL module (hosted here at SourceForge) is available free to everyone via the "Python" license (a simple BSD-like permission statement), but we ask all users to purchase a license and maintenance agreement in order to cover our development and support costs.
In order to motivate such sponsorship, we offer support and other incentives to PyMOL licensees with current maintenance subscriptions. In this way, we seek to insure the viability of the Open-Source project by providing a specific incentive (or reward) for outside support. However, our hope is that only a small subset of PyMOL's total value will need to be restricted to Incentive packages -- just enough to justify regular contributions and keep the project self-sustaining.
