I received the news via Dan Leahy regarding the passing of Warren
Delano, PyMOL author and scientist. Although I never met him in
person, we worked together extensively by email in the days when we
were bringing PyMOL to the Apple platform for the first time.
These experiences are among my cherished memories. Warren will
obviously be missed and remembered.
Regards,
Michael L. Love
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
On 5 Nov, Axel Brunger 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
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> Phone: +1 650-736-1031
> Fax: +1 650-745-1463
>
>
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>
>
>
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