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I have been playing "structural bioinformatician" recently, so
there's not much news concerning the other programs.

I'll be away the first two weeks of September; back on
Monday 15 Sept.


* SEAMAN Version 1.3.1
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Now uses the P-SEA algorithm (Labesse et al., CABIOS 13, 291 (1997))
to determine secondary structure.  A fudge factor is sometimes
necessary and has been implemented as well ;-) (I could not
reproduce the results in the paper, and when asked, the original
author explained that they had lost the source code used to
produce those examples.)


* LSQMAN Version 6.1.1
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New optional chain_id parameter for the WRite command to enable
writing of just a single chain or model (default = * = all
chains/models).


--cd

CD's Word of the Month: Quinquagenarian (i.e., Alwyn as of today ;-)