Hi Gerard,
EDS has made the life of many structural biologist easier (and some crystallographers harder) by providing maps at a time when reading reflection files from the PDB was still a total nightmare and real-space scores when it still was a such a hassle to calculate them. I don’t know how many maps I downloaded from EDS over the years, but it must have been thousands. The server may go down, but it's great that the idea lives on at PDBe. The king is dead, long live the king! Cheers, Robbie Verzonden vanaf mijn Windows 10-telefoon Van: Gerard DVD Kleywegt<mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se> Verzonden: dinsdag 13 december 2016 18:52 Aan: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Onderwerp: [ccp4bb] Message from the Uppsala EDS: "Morituri te salutant" Hi all, After tirelessly serving the scientific community with (mostly) beautiful maps for two decades, the Uppsala Electron Density Server (EDS; http://eds.bmc.uu.se/) is now reaching the end of its life (in fact, it has been living on borrowed time for several years already). Some time in 2017 it will therefore be "phased" out and join the choir invisible (despite its beautiful plumage). The good news is that much of the EDS functionality (and in particular the delivery of map and mtz files, as well as a much better 3D viewer) is now provided by the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org/). There is a short write-up that explains what this means for users who just want to look at maps, for users who want to download files, for users of software that retrieves data from EDS, and for developers of such software (incl. URLs for map, mtz and other relevant files on the PDBe website) at: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/eds Toodle pip! --Gerard ****************************************************************** Gerard J. Kleywegt http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se ****************************************************************** The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. ****************************************************************** Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! ******************************************************************
