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What was this all about ?

Dear protein crystallographer !

The Uppsala Software Factory is proud to announce the release of a new program, called APRIL. APRIL stands for "Ab-initio Phasing using Rotationally Induced Likelihood". The program can be used to solve the phase problem in cases where you have two or more non-isomorphous crystal forms of the same (or related, e.g. mutants, complexes) compound.

The program exploits the inherent geometric redundancies (Bricogne, 1974) to extract phase information, after first solving the self-rotation (in case any of your crystal forms contain NCS) and cross-rotation functions. Trial phases are optimised using a maximum likelihood-based objective function.

Initial tests (using different lysozymes) have given excellent results, confirming previous models for the structure of this protein.

Now, I would like to invite you to become a beta-testing site in order to help optimise and debug the software.

Executables of APRIL (release 1) are available for SGI, OSF1, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and ZX-81. The program is CCP4-compatible. It requires at least two MTZ files as input (one for each crystal form), and some control information (e.g., number of molecules per asymmetric unit for each crystal form, resolution limits, etc.).

For more information about the program and downloading instructions, please point your browser to:

http://alpha2.bmc.uu.se/usf/april.html

or to:

http://alpha2.bmc.uu.se/usf/april.html

The beta version of APRIL will only be available today so as to limit the number of bonafide beta testers to a manageable number.

Happy phasing !

--Gerard Kleywegt
CEO, Uppsala Software Factory
("21st century software with a 19th century interface, but, hey, it's free !")

USF Latest update at 1 April, 1998.