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Max has tagged the new version of PulsarSpectrum (now v2r2p2); it includes a simple model for timing noise. He reports that the problem with running the SC1 pulsars on recent versions of PulsarSpectrum seems to have gone away with HEAD1.516 of Science Tools. I don't know why, and have not confirmed this yet. According to the release notes, HEAD1.1516 516 does include a modification to observationSim that has a workaround for how astro::GPS does or doesn't pay attention to start and stop times in the pointing history file. I have not gotten around to asking Jim whether this change could be the explanation for the apparent fix.
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As probably has already been mentioned, last week Marco Frailis (Udine, DataMind), described a concept for a GUI for ScienceTools that he has support from Italian GLAST people to work on. The concept includes managing ways that tools could be sequenced into analysis 'pipelines' - powerful but perhaps ambitious. On Tuesday afternoon, Chris circulated a detailed response with issues that should be considered regarding the proposed GUI. Dave Davis has posted it as the top item in Design issues for Science Tools.
Source Catalog
Met this week. Jean demonstrated that the spurious sources found in DC2 along the track of the moon were not present in the SC1 source catalog; for the SC1 data set the moon source was implemented with orbital parallax, which smeared out the emission on short time scales. For DC2 no parallax was included. Jean reported that binned likelihood now runs alright in their system: "We solved the environment problem by installing cmt on our local farm. The gtpython script that Jim mentioned is indeed well advertised in the documentation, but it does not exist in the ordinary software deliveries (it was added specially to the DC2 release). Navid apparently plans to include it (together with a number of other things) but this is not available yet."