[buster-discuss] New release of the Global Phasing software with improvements in BUSTER and Pipedream

[Buster Developers]

Dear BUSTER and Pipedream users,

We are pleased to announce a new release of our software that
comprises several improvements and adds support for new external
software, as well as numerous fixes. We greatly appreciate everyone's
effort in reporting any issue they encountered and requirements they
wished to formulate: these have again provided valuable feedback that
was influential in determining the contents of this release.

The reporting of results from BUSTER refinements has been improved by
adding support for the latest cctbx-based version of MolProbity (from
the CCP4 distribution) to buster-report and to
visualise-geometry-coot. The output of Pipedream now includes
additional statistics and information from individual steps. The
deposition-ready PDBx/mmCIF files produced by BUSTER incorporate
detailed TLS information, in a form now supported by wwPDB sites.

Support for hydrogens has been enhanced by reporting the exact model
used in the output PDB file and by fixing incorrect
alternate-conformation patterns when using Reduce (via
aB_hydrogenate/hydrogenate). Users without access to a local CSD
installation will now be able to use aB_covalent_ligand with the Grade
server, and the "fetch_PDB" tool has been enhanced so as to support
download of CIF-only structures.

Please see the relevant release notes for a full description at

  https://www.globalphasing.com/buster/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-BUSTER_snapshot_20200520.txt

With best wishes,

The Global Phasing developers