CCL: Warren Lyford DeLano is no longer with us

 Sent to CCL by: Jan Labanowski [janl.:.speakeasy.net]
 While this sad news already appeared on CCL I will post a copy of the message
 that appeared on the CCP4 Bulletin Board. This is such a loss for computational
 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.
 While at Yale, Warren made countless contributions to the computational tools
 and
 methods developed in my laboratory (the X-PLOR and CNS programs), including the
 direct rotation function, the first prediction of helical coiled coil
 structures,
 the scripting and parsing tools that made CNS a universal computational
 crystallography program.
 He then joined Dr. Jim Wells laboratory at USCF and Genentech where he pursued 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 creating
 the Open Source molecular graphics program PyMOL that is widely used throughout
 the world. Nearly all publications that display macromolecular structures use
 PyMOL.
 Warren was a strong advocate of freely available software and the Open Source
 movement.
 Warren's family is planning to announce a memorial service, but arrangements
 have
 not yet been made. I will send more information as I receive it.
 Please join me in extending our condolences to Warren's family.
 Sincerely yours,
 Axel Brunger
 Axel T. Brunger
 Investigator,  Howard Hughes Medical Institute
 Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
 Stanford University