schrodinger/pymol-open-source

Open-source foundation of the user-sponsored PyMOL molecular visualization system.

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README

Open-Source PyMOL

Open-source foundation of the user-sponsored PyMOL molecular visualization system.

The commercial PyMOL product ("Incentive PyMOL") with maintenance and support is available from https://pymol.org

Installation

See INSTALL.

Contributing

See DEVELOPERS.

License

Published under a BSD-like license, see LICENSE.

Project health

Overall

3.4/10

Maintained

2/10

Code review

2/10

OpenSSF Scorecard

PyPI

pymol-open-source

Latest release

3.2.0a0 · Aug 4, 2025

Releases this year

Significant stargazers

Howard Wu

583 followers · starred Dec 2024

Gonzalo Peña-Castellanos

538 followers · starred Dec 2018

Michael Simons

553 followers · starred Mar 2026

Jannik Buhr

209 followers · starred Apr 2024

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Open-source foundation of the user-sponsored PyMOL molecular visualization system.

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Open-source foundation of the user-sponsored PyMOL molecular visualization system.

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See DEVELOPERS.

License

Published under a BSD-like license, see LICENSE.

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