Uppsala Software News @ 2001-07-04
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* LSQMAN Version 8.2.1
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- http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/dejavu.html
- Implemented an alternative operator-improvement algorithm
  using dynamic programming in a distance-based matrix
  (DP_improve command), similar to the method pioneered
  by Cohen (see: Y Satow, GH Cohen, EA Padlan, DR Davies,
  J Mol Biol 190, 593-604 (1986), and GH Cohen,
  J Appl Cryst 30, 1160-1161 (1997))
- The GLobal command now also calculates the significance of
  a structural alignment using the Levitt-Gerstein method
  (M Levitt & M Gerstein, PNAS 95, 5913-5920 (1998))


* MAPMAN Version 7.2.1
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- http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/rave.html
- Implemented input format AMBER (for AMBER-style "X-PLOR" maps,
  that are actually written by AMBER in a wrong format)


* MAMA Version 6.0.1
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- http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/rave.html
- The SImilarity command now provides a "bit" more information


* DEJAVU Version 5.7.1
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- http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/dejavu.html
- Increased the maximum number of structures to 20000


* MSEQPRO Version 1.3.1
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- http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/sbin.html
- Minor changes


* XPAND Version 1.4
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- http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/xutil.html
- Added option to generate a CNS (X)NCS blurb for the "ncs.def" file


* ProSAL
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- http://xray.bmc.uu.se/sbnet/prosal.html
- Added EMOTIF searches


* OMAC
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- http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/omac_index.html
- auto_amore.com - now also does rigid-body refinement in the
  case of a single molecule in spacegroup P1
- taylor_residue_colours.omac - paint residues of a molecule in nice
  colours according to WR Taylor, Prot Eng 10(7), 743-746 (1997)


* DOMBO
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- http://xray.bmc.uu.se/dombo
- Volume 10, issue number 4 (4 July, 2001), is now available.


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