Uppsala Software News @ 970625
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* FTP SERVER MOVED
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As announced earlier, essentially all O-related software
and other files have been moved to a new ftp server:
      ftp://xray.bmc.uu.se/
  The USF web site contains a handy page with links to
facilitate your downloading (accessible from the index
page http://xray.bmc.uu.se/~gerard/manuals/ by clicking
on "FTP" in the menu in the left-hand frame).
  A note for OOPS-afficionados: OOPS has now been
included in the X-UTIL package, so you don't need to
download it separately any longer.


* XPLO2D Version 2.3
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New option "DIHE".  With this option you can generate a set
of DIHEdral restraints for use with X-PLOR which will restrain
the Phi and/or Psi and/or Chi-1 and/or Chi-2 torsion angles
of your current, low-resolution complex to those of the
brilliant 1.5 A native structure you prepared earlier !  This
is an alternative to using HARMonic restraints, and it is
much more flexible and easier to set up.  See the manual for
more details.


* OOPS Version 4.6
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Added an option to produce an HTML file with a residue-by-residue
critique of your current model, which you can post on your web
site or intranet server.


* RAVE
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Increased the maximum number of NCS operators that can be
handled to 120 (upon request).
  Fixed a bug in the routine which reads NCS operators.  In
rare cases this could lead to errors in the reading of such
operator being ignored.  In particular, if you were reading
operators from a file which did not end with a <NEWLINE>
character, the corresponding translation could end up
being (0,0,0) !  If this happens now, an error message is
issued and the program bails out.  This bug fix affects
AVE, MAVE and MAMA.  If you have been getting strange
results, get the new version(s).  By the way: nowadays
NCS operators can be read from a single file (instead of
having, e.g., 60 separate operator files for your virus) !


* AVE Version 4.0.1
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Now prints the solvent fraction in the expansion step (when
calculating solvent density).


* MAPMAN Version 5.0.1
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New MStats command to get density statistics separately for points
inside and outside a mask.


* DATAMAN Version 5.0.2
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Better error checks when there are no centrics in the TWin_stats
and GEmini commands.


* LSQMAN Version 5.3
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Added an (optional) "chain" parameter to the APply_operator command.
This enables you to apply a least-squares operator to only one
particular chain of a molecule.  The default ("*") is to apply
the operator to all chains of a molecule.


* ODBMAN Version 1.5
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New BOxcar command to do box-car averaging of datablocks (e.g., to
smooth them before plotting).


* OMAC
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Improved versions of the "dirtar" and "tardir" scripts.


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