PiMS now has a commercial partner, Emerald Bio. They will distribute PiMS Pro(TM) for commercial use. STFC will use the royalties from this agreement to continue supporting PiMS for use both in industry and in universities, and proposals by academics for support for new methods will keep PiMS current for industrial use. PiMS will continue to be available free for academic use, to support data management in academic protein production and structural biology laboratories.
The interests of academic users of PiMS will be represented by a board consisting of: Peter Nollert (Emerald Bio, co-chair), Chris Morris (STFC, co-chair), Ray Owens (OPPF-UK), Mark Mixon (Emerald Bio) I would like to thank CCP4 for its generous support of PiMS over the years. This has enabled us to reach this point, which makes PiMS truly sustainable for the first time. There are more details in this press release: http://pims.structuralbiology.eu/docs/PiMS%20Press%20Release%20Final.pdf regards, Chris ____________________________________________ Chris Morris chris.mor...@stfc.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1925 603689 Fax: +44 (0)1925 603634 Mobile: 07921-717915 Skype: chrishgmorris http://pims.structuralbiology.eu/ http://www.citeulike.org/blog/chrishmorris STFC, Daresbury Laboratory, Sci-Tech Daresbury, Keckwick Lane, Daresbury, Warrington, WA4 4AD UK -- Scanned by iCritical.