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Ralf is a crystallographer. He has a degree in Mineralogy
(<a href="http://www.mineralogie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/englisch/mineralogie_v2.0_eng.htm">Bochum,
Germany</a>), and a Ph.D. in Crystallography
(<a href="http://www.kristall.ethz.ch/LFK/">ETH Zurich</a>,
Switzerland). Real Mineralogists and Crystallographers run
experiments with x-rays and hardware that is not normally
associated with C++ and Boost. However, when Ralf kept
breaking the expensive experimental equipment too often, he
decided that he would cause less damage as a computational
crystallographer.
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Being a scientist, Ralf spent most of his life programming
in Fortran, the great grand-father of all good programming
languages (if you know Backus-Naur you know the name of the
<a href="http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/backus.html">inventor
of Fortran</a>).
Ralf is a co-author of the
<a href="http://cns.csb.yale.edu/">CNS</a>
Fortran program that is very
popular in structural biology. When he learned that a real
programmer can write Fortran in any language, Ralf knew that it
was time for him to learn C++. Of course, absorbing four
decades of progress in the field of computer science all at
once crashed his brain. To be able to deal with the
challenge, he spawned two child processes and named them
Lisa and Anna. To see Lisa, click on the picture and turn
your monitor by 180 degrees around the view axis. (Other
pictures of
<a href="http://cci.lbl.gov/~rwgk/Lisa-Roza-Illes/">Lisa</a>
and
<a href="http://cci.lbl.gov/~rwgk/Anna-Rhona-Illes/">Anna</a>
do not require gymnastics with the monitor.)
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Right now, Ralf is working for the
<a href="http://cci.lbl.gov/">Computational Crystallography Initiative</a>
at the
<a href="http://www.lbl.gov/">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</a>
in California.
The goal of this initiative is to write a software system for high-throughput
protein crystal structure determination, also known as
<a href="http://www.nigms.nih.gov/news/announcements/psi.html">Structural
Genomics</a>.
Surprisingly, the gestation period for such a system turns
out to be much longer than it was for Lisa and Anna.
However, pre-natal diagnosis already revealed that Python
and C++ are the parents-to-be. For an ultra-sound image of
the new system at its early developmental stage
<a href="http://cctbx.sourceforge.net/">click here</a>.
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