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Many of you saw our posting and responded publicly and privately to the passing of Warren DeLano, the author of PyMOL. The following message comes from Axel Brunger, Warren's graduate advisor. If you can contribute to the fund to help get it established it would be very much appreciated.

To start MacResearch.org will donate all profits from our Amazon store through the end of the year to the fund.

Update: Many people have requested an alternate way to make donations to MacResearch.org. We've set up an account through PayPal. From now, until the end of the year, all PayPal donations will also go to the memorial fund. Use the link on the right hand side of the page to make a donation.

If you participate in a social networking site, know friends or colleagues that may be interested in contributing, or some other way to help spread the word, it would be greatly appreciated.

Please see below for more information:

Dear friends and colleagues:

It's now been over a week since Warren has passed away. We are trying to
move toward a permanent way to honor Warren's memory and what
he stood for: Open Source Computational Biosciences and molecular
visualization. To do this, Jim Wells and I put together a mission statement
with the approval of Warren's family:

The Warren L. DeLano Memorial Award for Computational Biosciences

This award shall be given to a top computational bioscientist in recognition of the
contributions made by Warren L. DeLano to creating powerful visualization tools
for three dimensional structures and making them freely accessible. The award,
accompanying lecture, and honorium will be given annually in the context of a
national bioscience meeting or a Bay Area gathering of computational bioscientists
at Stanford, UCSF or UC Berkeley. For the award special emphasis will be given
for Open Source developments and service to the bioscience community.

The award selection committee, consisting of experts in the computational and
biological sciences, will accept nominations from anyone..

To make something like this happen in perpetuity would take about ~100K for
the endowment.

For donations, Warren's family has set up a tax deductible fund:

Silicon Valley Community Foundation
memo: Warren L. DeLano Memorial Fund
2440 West El Camino Real, Suite 300
Mountain View, CA 94040
tel: 650.450.5400

We hope that you'll consider making a contribution (not matter
how small) in Warren's honor. Also, please forward this message
to anybody who might be able be willing to contribute.

Best regards,
Axel

Axel T. Brunger
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Stanford University