SHARP news

• 9.11.2005 :
  • the latest production version of SHARP/autoSHARP is released: SHARP 2.2.0 and Sushi 3.4.0. Highlights include: heavy atom detection with SHELXC/SHELXD, parallel version of SHARP, CCP4i interface to autoSHARP, Speed/Accuracy 'slider', Coot support, better analysis of residual maps, spherical HA cluster repesentation. AMD64/Opteron support ... (the full list of new features, improvement and fixes is available in the release notes from the download page).

    Release notes for SHARP 2.2.0 and Sushi/autoSHARP 3.4.0.

• 13.12.2004 :
  • new production version of SHARP/autoSHARP: SHARP 2.0.4 and Sushi 3.2.3: this has been tested with the latest CCP4 5.0.2 (with patches from our site, since a problem in the original MTZ library makes DM unusable in the preferred way).

    Release notes for SHARP 2.0.4 and Sushi/autoSHARP 3.2.3.

  • this is the first release with support for Apple/Mac OsX (tested under 10.2.8 using Firefox browser) and Linux/ia64 (Itanium, tested under RH 2.1AS)

• 29.07.2004 :
  • new hardware for WWW server

• 04.04.2003 :
  • if you got a problem with autoSHARP (it hangs at the "Extracting additional information" step) :

    please apply the getinfo.sh.diff patch:

    % cd /where/ever/sharp
    % cd bin/sharp/autoSHARP
    % patch getinfo.sh < /where/ever/getinfo.sh.diff
              

• 20.12.2002 :
  • updated WWW pages for SHARP/autoSHARP to reflect changes/additions for current release

  • release of SHARP 2.0.1 (Release notes for SHARP 2.0.1)

  • release of Sushi 3.0.15 (Release notes for Sushi/autoSHARP 3.0.15)

• 14.11.2002 :
  • several additions to WWW pages: new interfaces that allow licence renewal and password request.

  • release of SHARP 2.0.0 (production) to the academia (Release notes for SHARP 2.0.0)

  • release of Sushi 3.0.14 (Release notes for Sushi/autoSHARP 3.0.14)

• 16.01.2002 :
  • several changes to WWW pages: initial version of FAQ, interface to show current versions of SHARP, autoSHARP and SUSHI that are available for download

  • first update release (SUSHI 3.0.2) with instructions (the mechanism for handling upgrades/patches might change soon, ie be simplified).

• 03.01.2002 :

  Major new release of SHARP (now version 1.4.0) and Sushi (now at version 3.0.0): original announcement. Highlights include

  • autoSHARP: automated structure solution system (includes data scaling, heavy atom detection, heavy atom refinement and phasing with SHARP, phase improvement by density modification, automatic building using interface to ARP/wARP).

    For any SAD/MAD or SIR(AS)/MIR(AS) experiment this can start from merged data and only very basic information to give (in good cases) a nearly fully built and refined model.

  • interface to ARP/wARP: simple connection to feed solvent flattened phases directly into the warpNtrace procedure of ARP/wARP. (Thanks to A. Perrakis, V. Lamzin and R. Morris for help)

  • improved density modification tools, including NCS detection, incorporation of partial model and automation.

  • heavy atom refinement and phasing: several bug fixes, dynamic memory allocation, better stability of refinement.

  • complete rewrite of control system: (nearly) completely self-contained, highly configurable, easy accommodation of even complicated IT structures, general submission mechanism, ...