[SA_scat] ATSAS 2.3 announcement

[Dmitri Svergun]

Dear Small-Angle Scatterers,

this message is to announce a new ATSAS release 2.3.
It includes installers for Windows, Linux and Mac platforms,
and also context-sensitive help for all major programs.

The new features of individual programs include:

- DAMMIF: version with unlimited search space
- GASBOR: multi-CPU version for Linux
- SASREF and BUNCH: versions to fit slit-smeared (Kratky-type) data
- SASREF: limitations on rotation/translation possible
- CRYSOL: faster data fitting, batch processing, removal of rotamers

New programs include:

- FFMAKER program to prepare form factors for OLIGOMER
- DAMCLUST program to clastreize multiple ab initio or rigid body models
- AUTOGNOM, an automated version of GNOM for monodisperse systems
- AUTOPOROD, automated computation of the excluded particle volume
- AUTOMERGE, automated extrapolation to zero concentration

ATSAS 2.3 is free for download for academic users from the EMBL Web site
http://www.embl-hamburg.de/ExternalInfo/Research/Sax/software.html

If you have questions or problems using ATSAS, please post your queries
to the forum: www.saxier.org/forum

With best regards   ATSAS Team