Ave atque vale. The EDS was hugely useful (and will continue to be so in its new manifestation, we hope)—thanks to everyone who made it happen!
Pat > On 13 Dec 2016, at 12:51 PM, Gerard DVD Kleywegt <ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > After tirelessly serving the scientific community with (mostly) beautiful > maps for two decades, the Uppsala Electron Density Server (EDS; > http://eds.bmc.uu.se/) is now reaching the end of its life (in fact, it has > been living on borrowed time for several years already). Some time in 2017 it > will therefore be "phased" out and join the choir invisible (despite its > beautiful plumage). > > The good news is that much of the EDS functionality (and in particular the > delivery of map and mtz files, as well as a much better 3D viewer) is now > provided by the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org/). > > There is a short write-up that explains what this means for users who just > want to look at maps, for users who want to download files, for users of > software that retrieves data from EDS, and for developers of such software > (incl. URLs for map, mtz and other relevant files on the PDBe website) at: > > http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/eds > > Toodle pip! > > --Gerard > > ****************************************************************** > Gerard J. Kleywegt > > http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se > ****************************************************************** > The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity > to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. > ****************************************************************** > Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the > radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume > of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! > ******************************************************************
