Thomas, thank you for this notification. Oh, this is just devastating. I'm
overwhelmed. How very very sad.
Bob Hanson
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Thomas Stout <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am sorry to pass along this rather shocking news regarding Warren:
>
>
>
> 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<https://webmail.exelixis.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://atbweb.stanford.edu>
> Email: [email protected]
> Phone: +1 650-736-1031
> Fax: +1 650-745-1463
>
>
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