January 3rd, 2008: PyMOL 1.1 beta 3 executable builds have been posted for download by current PyMOL Subscribers. Builds are also accessible via the Official Documentation. Key improvements include improved Windows Vista compatibility, anisotropic temperature factor ellipsoids, and better scene-to-movie support. (1.1b3 is svn trunk rev. 3143).

fetch 1ob7,async=0; show ellipsoid

December 31, 2007: Recent PyMOL-based covers: Multiple articles on P-type ATPases in Nature 450 pp. 957, 1036, 1046, 1111, 1505-1516. and Rosette M. Roat-Malone Bioinorganic Chemistry: A Short Course, 2e. Published by Wiley.

November 23, 2007: More PyMOL-based journal covers: Luc Bonnefond et al Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases from Human Mitochondria. Structure 15(11) 1505-1516. and Vadim Cherezov et al. High-Resolution Crystal Structure of an Engineered Human Adrenergic G Protein Coupled Receptor Science 318(5854), 1258-1265.

November 2nd, 2007: Free JyMOL 0.7.1 Evaluation Builds have been posted for download by Java developers. JyMOL is a Java/JNI-based variant of the PyMOL molecular graphics kernel. This download may be of interest to developers of multi-platform Java applications (but not applets) for biology and chemistry.

October 4th, 2007: DeLano Scientific has moved! We have relocated from temporary space into our new office at 540 University Ave., Suite 325, Palo Alto, CA 94301. Although this should be a long-term home, for ordinary postal mail, please continue to use P.O. Box 1118, Palo Alto, CA, 94302-1118, USA.

September 20th, 2007: Yet another PyMOL-based journal cover: Structure of acid-sensing ion channel 1 at 1.9 A resolution and low pH. Nature 449 (7160) 316-323. Jayasankar Jasti et al.

September 18th, 2007: A PyMOL 1.1 beta 2 executable for Windows Vista has been posted for download by current PyMOL Subscribers. Please provide feedback on how well this release runs on your new PC (please also tell us your graphics processor type!).

August 31st, 2007: PyMOL 1.0 revision 2 executables have been posted for download by current PyMOL Subscribers. Contains Minor fixes and updates only. Source code:

svn export https://pymol.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pymol/tags/1.0r2/pymol pymol-1.0r2

August 20-22, 2007: DeLano Scientific LLC hosts booth 449 at the American Chemical Society Expo in Boston, MA.

August 17, 2007: PyMOL 1.1 beta 1 builds released to subscribers for Windows and Mac platforms. This version is better at finding polar interactions between proteins and ligands when using "stock" PDB files from the wwPDB (which STILL lack bond valences, ugh!).

August 7-8, 2007: DeLano Scientific LLC is exhibiting inside the Apple booth (#512) at the Drug Discovery Today in Boston, MA.

July 31st, 2007: PyMOL 1.0 revision 1 executables have been posted for download by current PyMOL Subscribers. If you already have revision 0, there is no need to upgrade unless you are using PyMOL to share .MOE files.

July 10th, 2007: The PyMOL 1.0 open-source code is now branched off trunk as "b10" in the Subversion repository. Trunk will now contain 1.1 beta code.

svn co https://pymol.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pymol/branches/b10/pymol pymol-1.0

June 21st, 2007: PyMOL 1.0 executables have been posted for download by current PyMOL Subscribers.

May 23rd, 2007: PyMOL 0.99rev10 executables posted for download by current PyMOL Subscribers. The open-source code for 0.99rev10 is revision 2974 of branch "b099" in the Subversion repository. This release contains minor bug fixes relative to 0.99rev8 and 0.99rev9.

April 12th, 2007: DeLano Scientific LLC presenting at the NIH as part of Molecular Modeling, Computational Chemistry, Pathway Analysis on a Mac.

March 28th, 2007: PyMOL & DeLano Scientific LLC covered in Biocomputation Startups: Where Does Value Lie? under "The Open Source Business Model" (5th page of linked PDF).