Dear Colleagues,
Warren's passing is a great loss to the community, not just for what he
did for all of us with PyMOL in the past but for the loss of all the great
things he would have done for the community in the future.
Perhaps we can encourage one or more of the societies to create an award
in his name to be given to people who carry on his ideals. Those ideals
deserve to be encoraged and perpetuated.
With deepest condolences to his family,
Herbert
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Herbert J. Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science
Dowling College, Kramer Science Center, KSC 121
Idle Hour Blvd, Oakdale, NY, 11769
+1-631-244-3035
y...@dowling.edu
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On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, 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
Email: brun...@stanford.edu
Phone: +1 650-736-1031
Fax: +1 650-745-1463
