Releases

2011

19th October 2011 - date (active development)

Phaser-2.4 released with Phenix

• Features of Phaser-2.4

Pseudo-translational NCS correction for MR and SAD phasing available, but not default (25-11-11)

• FAST search method turned on by default, replacing FULL search method default (17-11-11)
• MR possible with a model containing a single atom (17-11-11)
• B-factor refinement turned on by default in molecular replacement (2-11-11)
• Bugfix for occasional and irreproducible segmentation faults for 32 bit binary running on 64 bit Linux
• Packing function accepts cases where an ensemble with internal point group symmetry is on a special position, and pdb file output deletes atoms overlapped due to the symmetry of special position

15th July 2011

Phaser-2.3 released with CCP4-6.2.0

2010

16th December 2010

Phaser-2.3 released with Phenix

• Features of Phaser-2.3

• Option to refine variance of an ensemble ("RMS deviation" of target to model)
• Option for "FAST" search method that finds multiple copies of same ensemble more efficiently
• Significant speed up of fast rotation function
• Significant speed up of rigid body refinement (analytic gradients and hessian, rather than finite differences)
• Packing function - number of allowed clashes scales with the size of the molecules (percentage of atoms)
• Loggraphs of FOM vs resolution
• Option to give electron density as a model for SAD phasing

2009

1st October 2009

Phaser-2.2 released

• New features Phaser-2.2
  • Reduced memory requirements
  • For anisotropic data, map coefficients sharpened to falloff of strongest direction
  • Improvements to SAD log-likelihood-gradient substructure completion
  • Automated reassignment of atom types, when more than one type of scatterer
  • Improved sensitivity of LLG completion protocol
  • Facility to compare MR solutions with prior ("template") solution, e.g. from another program
  • Refine relative B-factors of different components of MR solution
  • Recognize internal symmetry in MR model, use to identify equivalent solutions
  • Updated atom names consistent with PDBv3

2008

14th January 2008

Phaser-2.1.2 released

• Download from this website and with phenix-1.3b
• Patch to fix segmentation fault in non-linux executables

2007

12th December 2007

CCP4 Automated Downloads

A Phaser module is now available through the CCP4 automated Downloads page and from the Daresbury ftp server.

12th November 2007

Phaser-2.1.1 released

• New Features Phaser-2.1.1
  • Default packing criteria relaxed to allow a small number of clashes
  • Default packing distance increased to identify intercalation of helices
  • Composition can be estimated from solvent content
  • Default composition corresponds to 50% solvent
  • If automated MR search finds some, but not all, components, the partial solution is output
  • Improved SAD phasing
  • SAD phasing starting from MR partial model
  • Output of PDB hybrid-36 atom numbers and col(21-22) chainids for largest structures

2006

1st November 2006

Phaser-1.3.3 released

• Download with ccp4 6.0.2.
• New Features Phaser-1.3,3
  • Filename parsing accepts quoted strings, for Windows filenames that include spaces. Change synchronised with corresponding changes throughout the rest of the CCP4 suite.

1st July 2006

Phaser-2.0 released

• Download with phenix-1.24-beta
• Minor Bug fixes from Phaser–1.3

1st February 2006

Phaser-1.3.2 released

• Download with ccp4 6.0.0.
• Minor Bug fixes from Phaser–1.3.1

2005

1st July 2005

Phaser-1.3.1 released

• New Features Phaser-1.3.1
  • Minor bug fixes after Phenix-1.1a release
  • R-factor reported by MR_RNP and MR_LLG modes (verbose output)

15th June 2005

Phaser 1.3 released

• Download with Phenix-1.1a
• New Features Phaser-1.3
  • Release with Phenix-1.1a
  • New Normal Mode Analysis of structures
  • New Cell Content Analysis Mode
  • Improved Automated MR
  • Map coefficients appended to input mtz file
  • Score stored in .sol file is Z-score rather than LLG
  • Final phasing and refinement to full resolution on mtz file
  • Packing of RNA/DNA
  • Packing to form close packed oligomeric complexes
  • Waters in pdb files excluded from packing
  • Only the most similar model in an ensemble is used for packing analysis
  • Reduced memory requirements
  • Composition/MW determined from sequence
  • Automated MR now available as a python script

1st June 2005

Phaser-1.2 expired

• A typo in the expiry date in the source code caused the source to expire. A message explaining what happened and possible ways to work around it has been sent to all registered Phaser users. We apologise for the inconvenience, and we are working hard to get version 1.3 (which will not have an expiry date!) released as soon as possible.

2004

15th December 2004

• Congratulations to Richard Bunker, who registered as our 1000th user!

30th June 2004

Documentation updated

• The README files for the installer, CCP4I GUI installation and the CCP4-4.2 extras have been clarified. Thanks for your feedback.

25th June 2004

Phaser-1.2 released

• Download from here.
• New Features Phaser-1.2
  • Automated solution of structures
  • New Likelihood Enhanced fast Translation Function (LETF)
  • Ability to use electron density maps as molecular replacement models
  • Rigid body solution refinement against maximum likelihood target
  • Pruning of duplicate solutions from solution list
  • Searching of multiple alternative space groups
  • Searching of multiple alternative models
  • Better minimizers

2003

22nd December 2003

Phaser-cambridge-alpha-1-1a released

• Phaser-cambridge-alpha-1-1 will stop working on the 1st of January 2004. We have therefore released a new version cambridge-alpha-1.1a that will work for another six months. This version is identical in all other areas to 1.1. We are currently working on a new and improved version (1.2) that will be released soon.

4th November 2003

Documentation online

26th September 2003

Phaser-cambridge-alpha-1-1 released

• Bugfix in the anisotropy correction.

6th September 2003

Phaser-cambridge-alpha-1-0 released

3rd September 2003

Phaser logo launched

28th July 2003

Phaser helpdesk launched

• Contact us on cimr-phaser@lists.cam.ac.uk

14th April 2003

Phaser webpage launched