Uppsala Software News @ 19990709
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* OOPS Version 5.3.2
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- The last version (if I can help it) of this program.  Use OOPS2
  from now on.


* OOPS2 Version 1.0
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- "OOPS est mort - vive OOPS2 !" This program is the successor of
  OOPS. Easier to use, and cleverer (it can use user-supplied
  feedback so as not to generate macros for residues with
  e.g. unusual sidechain conformations that have rock-solid
  density). The program is bundled with the X-UTIL package.
  For more information, see the manual on the USF web site.


* MOLEMAN2 Version 2.3
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- ANISOU cards are now read and written.
- the SElect ANd, OR and BUtnot commands can now also be used with
  the attributes ALtloc (alternative location identifier, e.g. A, B,
  X, " ", etc.) and ANisou (can be either T(rue) or F(alse)).
- new BFactor NO_anisou command to delete all ANISOUs.
- up to 20 least-squares planes (ONo LS_plane command) can be stored,
  and their mutual angles calculated with the new ONo ANgle_ls_planes
  command (useful for analysing long sugar chains, for instance)


* MAPMAN Version 5.7.2
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- new input format EM08 (KI-Stockholm-style EM maps), but it doesn't
  work yet :-)
- added OMAP as input and output format (same as DSN6)
- writing a map with output format DSN6 or OMAP will now actually do
  the mappage step for you, and writing a map with output format BRIX
  will do just that (i.e., no need to use the separate MAppage and
  BRix commands any longer)


* VOIDOO Version 3.1.5
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- Increased maximum number of atoms to 500,000.


* TUTORIALS
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I have added two tutorials to the USF web site:
- "Introduction to Structural Databases" (based on a tutorial
  developed by Tom Taylor; developed for the recent EMBO
  course in Bioinformatics here in Uppsala).
- The use of local density correlation maps to assess or
  validate differences between related protein crystal
  structures (described in: GJ Kleywegt, "Experimental
  assessment of differences between related protein
  crystal structures", Acta Cryst D55, accepted).


* DOMBO
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Volume 8, issues number 4 and 5 are now available from the Dombo
web site at http://xray.bmc.uu.se/dombo


Have a nice Summer/Winter (depending on your local hemisphere) !


--cd


CD's Words of the Month:

ESQUAMATE: having no scales ("if you just concatenate two reflection
  files you'll get an e. dataset")
ESQUISSE: preliminary sketch or model ("the next slide shows an e. of
  the structure")
ETESIAN: annual; every Summer ("we propose to make this Workshop an
  e. event")
ET UX(OR): "and wife" ("the rubisco review of X. et ux. was well
  received")
EUMORPHOUS: well-shaped ("we obtained big e. crystals")
EUODIC: aromatic ("have you tried any e. ligands ?")
EVULGATE: to publish ("e. or perish")
EXCEREBROSE: acerebral, having no brains ("why do I always get the
  e. students ?")
EXIGUOUS: scanty, little, small, meagre ("twenty-odd years of e.
  results eventually led to his Nobel Prize")
EXIMIOUS: excellent ("that's an e. piece of work")
EXOPTABLE: extremely desirable ("the most e. addition to "O" would
  be a Spink-option")
EXORDIUM: introduction of a treatise ("most people only read the e.
  of a PhD-thesis (and then only to see if they are acknowledged or
  referenced ...)")
EXOTERIC: adapted for the layman ("to put it in e. terms: your theory
  is a load of bull")
EXPONIBLE: needing further explanation ("that's an e. remark, young man")
EYESERVICE: work done only when the boss is watching ("the lazy
  student had perfected the art of e.")