FRODO/TOM Molecular Modelling Program for the IRIS

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Alberta/Caltech Version 3.0 now available

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).

Please send your comments and your suggestions to Yves Epelboin, epelboin@lmcp.jussieu.fr .