I am very sad to hear this! Alexey was one of my favourites when I was in York, 
and I have had many lovely conversations with him. You are right, Eugene, his 
contributions have helped and will keep helping many crystallographers and 
methods developers.
May his soul rest in peace!
James


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On Sunday, March 26, 2023, 7:29 pm, Eugene Krissinel - STFC UKRI 
<[email protected]> wrote:

 #yiv5325076508 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}Dear All,
It is with a great sadness that I share with you that Alexey Vagin passed away 
this Saturday in the Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after suffering from a heart 
attack with subsequent complications. He was 78 years old.
Alexey made many developments in methods and software for macromolecular 
crystallography, to which he devoted his whole life. He is known for his BLANC 
Suite for structure solution done at the Moscow Institute of Crystallography in 
the 1980s, as well as for his contributions to Refmac and Monomer Library. Many 
thousands of researchers have benefited from his work on Molrep and Balbes 
software for Molecular Replacement. After his retirement in 2010, Alexey 
developed and actively maintained the MorDA software for MR, which became a 
monument to his efforts.
Alexey's work will continue to serve generations ofresearchers through his 
contributions to CCP4, where we will take the best care of his distinguished 
legacy.

With sympathy to everyone who knew Alexey personally and for whom this is very 
sad news,

Eugene


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