MacResearch

First, happy new year to all of the MacResearcher's out there. Hopefully everyone had a fun, safe and relaxing holiday. I wanted to give you all a quick update on the pledge drive that we were doing.

As many of you know, Warren DeLano, the author of the molecular visualization program PyMOL, passed away on Nov. 5, 2009. In honor of his work a memorial fund was established by his friends and family called The Warren L. DeLano Memorial Award for Computational Biosciences. On Nov. 15 we made a pledge that all PayPal Donations and profits from referrals in the MacResearch Amazon Store, made between Nov. 15 and Dec. 31, would be donated to the fund on behalf of the MacResearch.org community.

We've opened up the date range slightly to include all donations and sales between Nov. 5 and Dec. 31. In that time period there was a total $422.57 that came in. To all of you who made a donation or purchase, thank you very much.

In a previous post I mentioned a target of around $1000 (1% of the estimated amount needed to establish the fund). Obviously we didn't quite make it. However, since I was the one that was pushing this particular activity and it was my pet project, it's only fair I feel, that I put my money where my mouth is. So on behalf of the MacResearch.org community I'll be contributing the difference to bring the total to $1000.00 even.

Of course, you are all welcome to send your own contributions directly to the fund. And certainly if you would like to continue to support this site by making purchases in our Amazon Store or via PayPal Donations, we'd greatly appreciate that as well. All funds received from Jan 1. forward, will go directly to activities and expenses associated with maintaining this online resource.

Again, best wishes for a successful and prosperous 2010 (and beyond, of course).