This is truly very very sad news. Although I never met Warren
personally, whenever we had any problems with PyMOL, he was always
available virtually immediately at the other end of e-mail and
answered all our questions.
I feel I really got to know Warren. He was just a terrific person and
has left a wonderful legacy in PyMOL.
Sincerely,
Joel
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Prof. Joel L. Sussman
Director, Israel Structural Proteomics Center
Dept. of Structural Biology
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot 76100 ISRAEL
Tel: +972 8-934 4531
Fax: +972 8-934 6312
[email protected]
www.weizmann.ac.il/~joel; www.weizmann.ac.il/ISPC
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On 5 Nov 2009, at 22:22, Janesh wrote:
Its really very shocking and sad news. Void created due to his
untimely demise will be hard to fill. He will always be remembered
for his significant contributions to science and for PYMOL in
particular. May his soul rest in peace.
Sincerely,
Janesh
Janesh Kumar Ph. D
National Institutes of Health
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development
Building 35, Room 3B1006
35 Lincoln Drive, MSC 3712
Bethesda, MD 20892-3712
Email: [email protected]
http://mayerlab.nichd.nih.gov
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Axel Brunger <[email protected]>
wrote:
Dear CCP4 Community:
I write today with very sad news about Dr. Warren Lyford DeLano.
I was informed by his family today that Warren suddenly passed
away at home on Tuesday morning, November 3rd.
While at Yale, Warren made countless contributions to the
computational tools
and methods developed in my laboratory (the X-PLOR and CNS programs),
including the direct rotation function, the first prediction of
helical coiled coil
structures, the scripting and parsing tools that made CNS a
universal computational
crystallography program.
He then joined Dr. Jim Wells laboratory at USCF and Genentech where
he pursued
a Ph.D. in biophysics, discovering some of the principles that govern
protein-protein interactions.
Warren then made a fundamental contribution to biological sciences
by creating the
Open Source molecular graphics program PyMOL that is widely used
throughout
the world. Nearly all publications that display macromolecular
structures use PyMOL.
Warren was a strong advocate of freely available software and the
Open Source
movement.
Warren's family is planning to announce a memorial service, but
arrangements have
not yet been made. I will send more information as I receive it.
Please join me in extending our condolences to Warren's family.
Sincerely yours,
Axel Brunger
Axel T. Brunger
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Stanford University
Web: http://atbweb.stanford.edu
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +1 650-736-1031
Fax: +1 650-745-1463
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Janesh Kumar Ph. D
National Institutes of Health
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development
Building 35, Room 3B1006
35 Lincoln Drive, MSC 3712
Bethesda, MD 20892-3712
Email: [email protected]
http://mayerlab.nichd.nih.gov
