SIRWARE by G. Cascarano⁽⁺⁾, A. Altomare⁽⁺⁾, C. Giacovazzo⁽⁺⁾, A. Guagliardi⁽⁺⁾, A.G.G. Moliterni⁽⁺⁾, D. Siliqi⁽⁺⁾, M.C. Burla^(*), G. Polidori^(*) & M. Camalli^{(deg.) (+)}Istituto di Ricerca per lo Sviluppo di Metodologie Cristallografiche - CNR c/o Dipartimento Geomineralogico - Campus Universitario Via E. Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari - Italy.^(*)Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universita, 06100 Perugia, Italy. ^(deg.)CNR,Istituto di Strutturistica Chimica G. Giacomello, C.P.10, 00016 Monterotondo Stazione (RM), Italy.

New releases of our software and new programs will be presented. The covered fields are:

- treatment of powder data

A new integrated software based on EXTRA and SIRPOW

exploiting all the synergies betweeen extraction intensities step

and the Direct Methods application.

- single crystal

The new version of the Direct Methods program SIR ( SIR96 )

including the treatment of electron diffraction data.

- protein data

A new program based on the integration of Direct Methods and

isomorphous derivative techniques, solvent flattening and

histogram matching.

A powerful and effective graphic interface is available in this software,

suitable for all common platforms.

The programs will be free of charge for academic institutions.