After years of development and testing in the open-source community, PyMOL has established itself as a leading software package for customization of 3-D biomolecular images, with more than 600 settings and 20 representations to provide users with precise and powerful control.
PyMOL can interpret over 30 different file formats from PDB files to multi-SDF files to volumetric electron density maps. PyMOL's straightforward graphical user interface allows first-time and expert users alike to create stunning 3-D images from their favorite file formats. Images and movies can then be saved in a cross-platform Session file, ensuring that every object position, atom color, molecule representation, molecular state, frame, and movie can be viewed by colleagues exactly as intended.
• RENDER Figures Artistically
PyMOL boasts an internal ray caster for ray tracing, a graphics technique that enhances shadows and smooths jagged edges to render high-resolution 3-D images. PyMOL graphics routinely grace the covers of elite scientific journals.
• ANIMATE Molecules Dynamically
PyMOL now makes it easier than ever to create animations, enabling users to convey molecular results with more impact. PyMOL's new graphical user interface for movie-making allows users to create molecular animations without typing any commands. Objects and cameras can be moved around a scene in tandem, or independently of each other, to create a movie while PyMOL handles the mathematical details in the background.
PyMOL also ships with RigiMOL, an animation tool for molecular visualization. RigiMOL includes a number of pre-programmed menus that allow users to easily create a molecular morph between two input structures and then export the data for sharing.
• EXPORT PyMOL Geometry
With one simple save command, PyMOL can export geometry data to VRML, Virtual Reality Markup Language. VRML can be used to generate interactive vector graphics and movies using Maya, PovRay and even 3D printers.
• PRESENT 3D Data with AxPyMOL
Streamlining presentations just became a lot easier with AxPyMOL, an optional plugin for Windows PowerPoint that enables presentation of 3-D molecular data without having to "tab out" of PowerPoint slides.
AxPyMOL allows users to easily embed PyMOL shows saved from actual PyMOL sessions directly into PowerPoint slides. During presentation, the PyMOL shows can be manipulated within PowerPoint to display structures using multiple vantage points and rendering schemes set up in advance. Users can simply advance through the saved scenes of a PyMOL show without ever exiting PowerPoint.
• DEVELOP with JyMOL
JyMOL is an optional Java-based development component that enables developers to easily create molecular visualization programs, browser applets, and JavaWS applications, replacing the visualization expert otherwise needed to build a specialized visualization component. The JyMOL API was designed to obviate the learning curve for users familiar with the PyMOL API. The additional JyMOL license provides all the tools needed to rapidly achieve a desired solution, saving development time and costs.
Academic users may purchase PyMOL online at pymol.org.
