The Phenix developers are pleased to announce that version 1.8.1 of Phenix is now available. Binary installers for Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows platforms are available at the download site: http://phenix-online.org/download/ Some of the new features in this version are: Graphical interface: ==================== - New GUIs: phenix.find_alt_orig_sym_mate General: ======== - Multiple bug fixes - New commands: phenix.erraser, phenix.merging_statistics - Added geometry restraints for over 400 non-standard amino acid entries Refinement: =========== - Overall B-cart now applied to individual atomic B-factors (restores pre-1.8 behavior) - Improvements to torsion NCS rotamer correction - Real-space refinement (including rotamer fitting) for twinned data New command: ============ - phenix.erraser: - New method from Fang-Chieh Chou and Rhiju Das (Stanford) combining Rosetta nucleic acid rebuilding with phenix.refine (requires separate installation of Rosetta 3.4 or more recent) Molecular Replacement: ====================== - Phaser updated to version 2.5.2: - Scattering from HETATM records that represent modified amino acids (e.g. MSE/SeMet) included so that maps no longer show holes for these HETATM records in the model; occupancies will not be reset. - Packing test was incorrectly applied to reoriented molecules where there was PTNCS Experimental Phasing and Model Building: ======================================== - AutoSol: - Scale of derivative in SIR (for RIP phasing) can be set with keyword "derscale" - AutoBuild: - Unassigned chains are now given the segid of "UNK" and are normally given chain ID="U" Ligands: ======== - eLBOW: - New option, --multiple-planes, to generate planes around double bonds - Saturated rings now have dihedral restraints to maintain chair conformation - REEL: - View relationships between ligands using PubChem fingerprint and tanimoto score. Miscellaneous: ============== - phenix.real_space_correlation: - Simplified command-line behavior - phenix.merging_statistics (new command): - Calculate statistics for unmerged data in a variety of formats, including , R-merge, R-meas, R-pim, CC1/2 - References: Diederichs K & Karplus PA (1997) Nature Structural Biology 4:269-275 Weiss MS (2001) J Appl Cryst 34:130-135. - phenix.kinemage: - Improvements to handling of alternate conformations. - phenix.combine_models: - Combine two models, taking the best parts of each to create a new model For a full list of changes see: http://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/CHANGES Please note that this publication should be used to cite use of Phenix: PHENIX: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution. P. D. Adams, P. V. Afonine, G. Bunkóczi, V. B. Chen, I. W. Davis, N. Echols, J. J. Headd, L.-W. Hung, G. J. Kapral, R. W. Grosse-Kunstleve, A. J. McCoy, N. W. Moriarty, R. Oeffner, R. J. Read, D. C. Richardson, J. S. Richardson, T. C. Terwilliger and P. H. Zwart. Acta Cryst. D66, 213-221 (2010). Full documentation is available here: http://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/ There is a Phenix bulletin board: http://www.phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/phenixbb/ Please consult the installer README file or online documentation for installation instructions. Direct questions and problem reports to the bulletin board or: [email protected] and [email protected] Commercial users interested in obtaining access to Phenix should visit the Phenix website for information about the Phenix Industrial Consortium. The development of Phenix is principally funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH) under grant P01-GM063210. We also acknowledge the generous support of the members of the Phenix Industrial Consortium. -- Paul Adams Deputy Division Director, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Lab Division Deputy for Biosciences, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley Lab Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, U.C. Berkeley Vice President for Technology, the Joint BioEnergy Institute Laboratory Research Manager, ENIGMA Science Focus Area Building 64, Room 248 Tel: 1-510-486-4225, Fax: 1-510-486-5909 http://cci.lbl.gov/paul Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road BLDG 64R0121 Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Executive Assistant: Louise Benvenue [ [email protected] ][ 1-510-495-2506 ] --