🚀 go-pugleaf

   This is to announce the release of Alberta/Caltech Version 3.0 
of Frodo/TOM, a molecular modelling program for crystallographic 
map-fitting on SGI IRIS workstations.

   The licence owner, Christian Cambillau, has given the University 
of Alberta permission to distribute Frodo/TOM free of charge to 
academic users.  If you would like to obtain the program, please
send e-mail to "frodo-request@biochem.ualberta.ca", affirming 
that you are an academic, not-for-profit user, and promising not 
to re-distribute the sources or binaries.  Shortly thereafter, you 
will receive a message telling you where to ftp the package from and
how to decrypt it.

   Bug reports, questions about how to use the program, and (most 
welcome of all) your own enhancements to the code, can be sent 
"frodo-bugs@biochem.ualberta.ca".

   We don't want anyone to be forced to use Frodo/TOM just because
of not knowing that alternatives exist.  Alwyn Jones' current
offering, "O", is a *much* more powerful program; while Christian 
Cambillau's current offering, "Turbo-Frodo", has faster graphics 
and easier-to-learn pull-down menus.  However, since Frodo/TOM is
the only program in this family that is available completely free
of charge (to academic users), with *source code*, we think it's
a good deal.

   If you merely want a molecular graphics program for the IRIS
and don't have any electron density maps to fit, then I would 
suggest that you look into MMS (contact Steve Dempsey for info: 
sdempsey@ucsd.edu) or MIDAS (contact Robert Langridge for info:
rl@cgl.ucsf.edu).


--
misrael@csi.uottawa.ca			Mark Israel