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Subject: Re: Warren DeLano
From: Anastassis Perrakis a {- dot -} perrakis {- at -} NKI {- dot -} NL
Date: 2009-11-06

Dear all,

As many mentioned and all are thinking Warren's premature death was a
great loss for everyone. I still find it hard to believe.

I am confident that Warren will be remembered by his friends and
colleagues for many personal reasons, but from the large
crystallographic community that did not really know him well
personally - like myself - he will be remembered mainly for the PyMol
legacy. The PyMol 'legacy' extends far beyond the outstanding software
we all use, and lies to its 'Open Source': the PyMol source is now out
there, and I am sure Warren would be glad to know that his work will
remain available for everybody to build on it and continue it. One of
the best ways to honor his memory will be if in ten years from now the
PyMol Open Source is still being used and updated and delivers
beautiful graphics and new structural insight.

I had the privilege to have met Warren a couple of times... I recall
being quite angry with him for being unable to write up his invited
paper for the ActaD CCP4 2004 issue ... and I am still chuckling
recalling his publication-long email explaining me the reasons he did
not have time to write a long paper! We have remained in email contact
since then, and these emails allowed me to realize that Warren was a
professional, but also a playful mind and a true visionary. I am
pasting a small text he had sent me about a year ago, when we were
chatting about ideas on human interfaces for PyMol control:

> ... I think we could do
> even better with stereo cameras and good 3D depth-perception software.
> Why shouldn't I should be able to control PyMOL simply by moving my
> fingers in front of the camera? Another intriguing idea would be a
> simple lens that fits over the
> monoscopic camera breaking it into two juxtaposed images which form a
> stereo pair...

I hope his 'wild ideas' like this one will come true soon, and that
the outstanding work and open source he left behind will surely
catalyze new exciting developments for the future. In a way, he will
remain for long an alive part of our community through his
contributions.

Tassos

On Nov 5, 2009, at 19:54, 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: brunger@stanford.edu
> Phone: +1 650-736-1031
> Fax: +1 650-745-1463
>
>
>
>
>
>

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