From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Fri Nov  6 10:35:01 2009
From: "Jan Labanowski janl~~speakeasy.net" <owner-chemistry{:}server.ccl.net>
To: CCL
Subject: CCL: Warren Lyford DeLano is no longer with us
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Sent to CCL by: Jan Labanowski [janl.:.speakeasy.net]
While this sad news already appeared on CCL I will post a copy of the messa=
ge
that appeared on the CCP4 Bulletin Board. This is such a loss for computati=
onal
chemistry community.
Jan

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> From: Axel Brunger <brunger_+_stanford.edu>
Date: Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Subject: [ccp4bb] Warren DeLano
To: CCP4BB_+_jiscmail.ac.uk


Dear CCP4 Community:

I write today with very sad news about Dr. Warren Lyford DeLano.

I was informed by his family today that Warren suddenly passed away at home=
 on
Tuesday morning, November 3rd.=20=20

While at Yale, Warren made countless contributions to the computational too=
ls and
methods developed in my laboratory (the X-PLOR and CNS programs), including=
 the
direct rotation function, the first prediction of helical coiled coil struc=
tures,
the scripting and parsing tools that made CNS a universal computational
crystallography program.=20

He then joined Dr. Jim Wells laboratory at USCF and Genentech where he purs=
ued a
Ph.D. in biophysics, discovering some of the principles that govern
protein-protein interactions.

Warren then made a fundamental contribution to biological sciences by creat=
ing
the Open Source molecular graphics program PyMOL that is widely used throug=
hout
the world. Nearly all publications that display macromolecular structures u=
se PyMOL.

Warren was a strong advocate of freely available software and the Open Sour=
ce
movement.=20

Warren's family is planning to announce a memorial service, but arrangement=
s have
not yet been made. I will send more information as I receive it.=20

Please join me in extending our condolences to Warren's family.=20

Sincerely yours,
Axel Brunger

Axel T. Brunger
Investigator,  Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Stanford University