New post-workshop EMAN release

[Steven Ludtke]

The NCMI is happy to announce the availability of EMAN v1.30 (45). Thanks 
to everyone who came to the Single Particle workshop in December and 
helped us to debug this new version. I'm sending this to a couple of 
lists, so I apologize to those of you who see it more than once.

http://ncmi.bcm.tmc.edu/~stevel/EMAN/doc
http://ncmi.bcm.tmc.edu/ncmi/software/software_details?selected_software=eman

This version of EMAN finally offers a frequently requested feature ... 
scripting. Rather than design an entirely new scripting language, the EMAN 
library has been adapted to act as a Python module. Python is a very 
powerful, yet easy-to-learn scripting language that has gained much 
popularity in scientific circles in recent years (particularly 
visualization). This is the first version of scripting support, so things 
will undoubtedly improve and change over the coming year, but we already 
offer access to about 95% of EMAN's powerful image processing library. 
Don't worry, the easy-to-use high level programs are still the standard 
way to do a reconstruction, but now more advanced users have more 
flexibility.

There were a few more important changes :

This version fixes the long-standing (but recently discovered) Spider 
stackfile writing bug. 

A new GUI program for viewing 2D and 3D images, 'v2' has also been added 

The binaries for vis5d have been included again.

a new package optimized for the AMD Athlon processor. On Athlon boxes, 
this version can provide speed improvements of over 30% ! This gives the 
Athlon a substantial speed advantage over P4 based systems (it was 
already in the lead for EMAN). This version is only available for MDK 9.0 
or RH 8.0 linux, however.

Lots of minor bugfixes and subtle enchancements.

Enjoy...

PS - Please send the inevitable bug reports to me   :^)
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Steven Ludtke, PhD              |        Baylor College of Medicine
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stevel at alumni.caltech.edu       | National Center For Macromolecular Imaging 
V: (713)798-6989                |    Dept of Biochemistry and Mol. Biol.
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