Hi Everyone,

PyMOL is a user-sponsored molecular visualization system on an open-source foundation. It is one of the best 3D visualization software for biological macromolecules/proteins. For more information please check the PyMOL website at http://www.pymol.org/

The PyMOL Wiki is one of the foremost user resources for people learning and using PyMOL. The wiki is located at http://www.pymolwiki.org/


Recently, attempts have been made to document the use of Blender with PyMOL: http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Blender


Your feedback and assistance is welcome to help improve the Wiki resources with tutorials, examples or scripts involving Blender+PyMOL.

Thanks!

I like the Blender/Pymol tutorial.. but how do I import the protein ribbon / surface colour from Pymol into Blender?

I would like the ribbo representation in Blender to have different colours depending on the type of secondary structure.

I would like the surface to be coloured based on electrostatic potential.

When I try to load the protein from Pymol (or other protein structure programs), the colour is not transferred.

Thanks,

Ryan

rdoherty wrote:

When I try to load the protein from Pymol (or other protein structure programs), the colour is not transferred.

Hi Ryan,
I'm a little late, but for other people interested, you can generate molecular models with all types of proper color-coding (including ones like color-per-residue that require a plugin for PyMOL) directly in Blender using our lab's plugin ePMV (the embedded Python Molecular Viewer). Here is a link for overview, download, and install instructions.
http://epmv.scripps.edu

You can also use http://bioblender.eu to generate sophisticated animations for forcefields, etc.