Oh no, that's terrible news... how did you hear?? - Shirley Wu

on the ccp4 mailing list - Deepak Singh from IM

:( - Rajarshi Guha

Very sad, I saw Warren introduce an early version of PyMol, it was an excellent piece of software for a one man effort. The mailing list announcement is here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin... - Greg Tyrelle

Ah i see. Nothing on the google yet. He was relatively young too, wasn't he? Sad... - Shirley Wu from twhirl

I met him in August and he seemed fine! very depressing - Rajarshi Guha

:( - Ruchira S. Datta

He wasn't much older than me and I knew him a bit back in my modeling days, so this really sucks - Deepak Singh

Very, very sad. Today in my graduate course on RNA one of the students spent most of the class showing us images of the ribosome that he generated with PyMol. The first thing I introduce to the students in this course is how to use PyMol. This is truly a great loss to the community. - Tom Tullius

so sad. I only interacted with Warren via email, but it was always a pleasure. I greatly admired his support of FOSS, and was inspired by his ground-breaking work in molecular visualization. such sad news. - tim

Very sad news indeed... :( - Egon Willighagen

:-( - Michael Kuhn

this is a big and shocking loss - Wladimir Labeikovsky

Wow. I met with him a couple of times. Very, very sad. It will be hard to use pymol now without thinking of him. - Iddo Friedberg

Very sad. Condolences to his family and friends. - Neil Saunders

Very sad indeed. His legacy lives on in awesome molecular graphics now and forever. - Adam Kraut

Oh, that's really, really sad news :( - Andrew Perry

It was a kick in the head today when I heard that he had passed. A sad day indeed - Antony Williams

:-( - Mickey Kosloff

So sad--young guy, met him at a conference about 2 years ago. Accomplished so much--his science and entrepreneurship was an inspiration to me. - Mary Canady

Anyone else interested in helping continue the PyMol codebase? - Donnie Berkholz

Donnie, certain hope that it doesn't go away - Deepak Singh

Last I glanced at the PyMol codebase it was actually pretty scary. Sloccount says: Totals grouped by language (dominant language first): ansic: 477951 (85.93%) python: 65182 (11.72%) cpp: 12928 (2.32%) - Anders Norgaard

I realize I might get slapped for this but with light comes shadow (very Jungian I know). The upside of Warren releasing code as Open Source is that his work can live on and be continued. This is brilliant. The shadow is what about about his young wife that he has left behind? I talked with Warren earlier this year and PyMol was helping him to create a living. But what does his family get from his work now he is gone? I thought of similar things when ChemSPider was developed. I hope that some organization will take his code under their wing, keep it Open Source and support it, but be honorable enough to divert some of the funds to his wife for all of the long nights she likely didn't see him while he was coding a fix for someone. He was working on it for almost a decade or so. Feel free to poke at me...but I needed to say it based on my discussions with him a few months ago... - Antony Williams

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