Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Yay! They finally released the new Crank! They've called it version 0.9.5, and it has most of the things that I had put in it. They removed all the structure and phase comparison plugins, and the model building plugins, but all in all, a very complete release. Go check it out.

For those of you wondering what's going on, this was my last job, when I was working in Leiden. Crank is a tool to help to automate macromolecular crystallography, and allows users to run a wide variety of crystallographic tools in an arbitrary order. It's licenced under the GNU Public Licence (GPL), and has a user interface designed with the CCP4 library.

You can check out an article about Crank in the CCP4 newsletter.