Software updates will be available at your location after the Friday evening update.

The following Linux branch updates will be made:

GROMACS will now be available for the Linux branch. GROMACS is a versatile, optimized molecular dynamics package. For more information about GROMACS, please visit their website.

An optimized compilation of CNS 1.2: CNS was compiled using Intel's Fortran Compiler 9.1, for both 32-bit and 64-bit OSs. Intel's Fortran Compiler should provide a significant speed improvement over the previous builds, which relied on gfortran.

Pymol release candidate 8 (0.99rc8 – SBGrid Build): This release features a massive reworking of ramp_new for molecular objects along with other small fixes and changes. A full list of updates in this release can be found in the changes file which will be located in your …/pymol/0.99rc8 directory.

MGLTools version 1.4.4: In the past, we have used the pmv application which is part of this package to create animations and surface representations. The program can create symmetry objects and approximate surface curvature, which minimizes computational requirements. Three applications included in the package, adt (AutoDockTools), pmv (Python Molecular Viewer), and vision (visual programming enviroment) can be started from the command prompt. A Mac OS X version will be available next month. For a full list of changes with this version, please visit the MGLTools website.

The following applications will be available for both Linux and Mac OS X branches:

Refmac 5.4: This upgrade will be added to the current version of CCP4, 6.0.2.

Eman 1.8: This is the first new stable release of Eman in over a year. The biggest change in this version is substantial improvements to refine2d.py. Mac Intel and PPC users will need to run eman_setup before this new version eman will function properly. More information on the upgrade is available on the Eman website.