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* MOLEMAN2 Version 2.7.1
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- New ONo RIngs command to generate ODL files that contain instructions
  to draw semi-transparent planes inside rings (Phe, Tyr, etc.; and,
  yes, it also works for nucleic acids, M. ;-)
  Example: http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/pics/ono_rings.jpg
  NOTE: this command requires that you use the latest version of
        the "moleman2.lib" library file, which you can get from
        ftp://xray.bmc.uu.se/pub/gerard/xutil/xutil_etc/moleman2.lib


* STRUPRO Version 1.3
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- Implemented the Henikoff & Henikoff method to weight the sequences
  (JMB 243, pp. 574-578, 1994), which is now the default.


* MSEQPRO Version 1.2
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- Implemented the Henikoff & Henikoff method to weight the sequences
  (JMB 243, pp. 574-578, 1994), which is now the default.


* OMAC
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- O_with_H.shar = a collection of files that enable you to use O
    with explicit hydrogens. Save this file, then use "sh filename"
    to get the individual files, then check the README.txt file.
    Contributed by Simon Lovell (simon.lovell@duke.edu).
- merge_nmr_pdb.csh = C-shell script to merge multiple PDB files
    into a single multi-MODEL (i.e., NMR-style) PDB file. This
    can be used, for instance, to collect all stages of a morph
    generated with LSQMAN into one file suitable for display
    with Protein Explorer. See:
    http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/explorer/index.htm   and
    http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/morpher/index.htm


* DOMBO
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Volume 9, issue number 2, is available from the Dombo web site at:
       http://xray.bmc.uu.se/dombo
Contributions for Dombo can be sent to:
       mailto:dumbo@xray.bmc.uu.se?subject=copy


--dvd (The Crystallographer Formerly Known As "CD")


The Crystallographer Formerly Known As "CD"'s Words of the Month:

OBVALLATE: walled in ("your protein should be completely o. by
  the mask")
OMPHALOSKEPSIS: meditation while gazing at one's navel ("a trifle
  of o. before you start wasting days of CPU-time with X-PLOR is
  usually a good idea")
OOID: egg-shaped ("he always gets o. crystals")
OPHISTOGRAPH: manuscript written on both sides ("Save the rain
  forest - write o. !")
OPUSCULE: an insignificant work ("what makes you think that
  Science will accept this o. ?")
ORNITHOPHILOUS: bird-loving ("the o. PhD-student spent too much
  time on his hobby")
ORTHOTETRAKAIDEKAHEDRON: truncated octahedron ("the ligands
  of the metal ion formed an o.")
OSSATURE: skeleton; framework ("you'll have to edit your o. a bit
  more, I'm afraid")
OTIOSE: sterile; useless ("if your equipment isn't o., the
  experiment is o.")
OXYACANTHOUS: having sharp spines or thorns ("why are my crystals
  perpetually o. ?")
PALILALIA: helplessly repeating a phrase faster and faster
  ("thanks to his p. he never had to give a Friday Seminar")
PANGRAM: a sentence containing every letter of the alphabet ("Q.V.
  Schwartzkop Jr. bungled my fix")
PANNYCHOUS: lasting all night ("building a model in your density
  is a p. chore")
PANOPTIC: seeing everything in one view ("one figure should offer
  a p. view of the protein's secondary structure")
PARAPRAXIS: clumsiness ("they made him a professor because of his
  p. at the lab bench")