Endeavour Version 1.3 has been released

The new version 1.3 of Endeavour has been released on October 27, 2005. It includes the long-awaited Hofmann potential, which was recently published in detail in the literature: D.W.M. Hofmann, L.N. Kuleshova, Crystallography Reports 50 (2), 372-374 (2005).

Using this potential the crystal structures of rigid molecules can be solved much easier, the potential being even capable of predicting the crystal structures of rigid molecules without using any powder diffraction data: D.W.M. Hofmann, J. Apostolakis, "Crystal structure prediction by data mining", J. Mol. Struc. (Theochem) 647, 17-39 (2003). The new potential does not contain any parameters which have to be adjusted by the user, so that its usage is extremely simple.

In addition to the new potential, Endeavour 1.3 includes an automatic online updating facility similar to Match!.

Not forget to mention, there are also two bugs that have been resolved:
a) Four typing errors in the parameter table for the atomic form factor calculation have been corrected. Affected elements: H, Sc3+, Ru4+, Bi5+.
b) A bug leading to the distorted drawing of atoms and other objects on PC screens with a width/height ratio different from 4 : 3 has been fixed.