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 of researchers 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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