MIFit and MIExpert v2010-10 Released Faster rendering, better performance, more customizable.
November 1, 2010 – The developers of MIFit and MIExpert announce the release of MIFit and MIExpert v2010-10. MIFit v2010-10 is a free, Open Source molecular graphics program for protein crystal structure determination and display. The new version of MIFit has the following features: *Easy to navigate and manipulate multiple structures and maps. *Improvements in graphics rendering performance. *Customizable jobs menu for interfacing with MIExpert or your own scripts and automated systems. *Developed with Qt 4.7 (http://qt.nokia.com). *Cross platform – supports Windows and Linux. Building on MacOS should be possible, but not yet supported. MIExpert is a suite of Python driver scripts and interfaces that manage common crystallographic structure determination tasks, primarily using the CCP4 software suite. The MIExpert interfaces are configured and exposed through MIFit. Alternatively, the driver scripts may be used as command-line components for structure solution applications. This new version of the MIFit/MIExpert system has already been used to solve many structures and is well suited for personal crystallographic computing on laptop computers. MIFit and MIExpert are available from http://code.google.com/p/mifit/ under the terms of GNU General Public License. Source code and precompiled distributions for Windows and Linux operating systems are available. MIFit and MIExpert will continue to be developed and improved. Feedback is welcomed. Bradley A. Smith, Ph.D., MIFit Project Manager John Badger, Ph.D., MIExpert Author
