I've contacted Warren a couple of times and I've always received more than the help I had asked for, a surprising kindness and an unexpected interest in what I thought were only the very minute problems of a beginner.
Thanks a lot, Warren, for your time and patience. Claudia Claudia Scotti Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Sezione di Patologia Generale Universita' di Pavia Piazza Botta, 10 27100 Pavia Italia Tel. 0039 0382 986335/8/1 Facs 0039 0382 303673 Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:54:13 -0800 From: brun...@stanford.edu Subject: [ccp4bb] Warren DeLano To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 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 Email: brun...@stanford.edu Phone: +1 650-736-1031 Fax: +1 650-745-1463 _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Friends get your Flickr, Yelp, and Digg updates when they e-mail you. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_3:092010
