Dear all
We are pleased to announce the release of Mosflm 7.0.4 and iMosflm
1.0.0.
This is the first production release of iMosflm; we are confident that
it represents a major step forward from the series of beta-releases
that we have made over the last couple of years. It is both more
robust and more flexible.
Both programs are available to download from our web-site -
http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/harry/mosflm
Major new features -
Enhancements to the iMosflm GUI
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A greatly improved and extended version of the iMosflm GUI. This now
has almost all the functionality of the old X11 based ipmosflm GUI and
is much easier to use.
We strongly recommend users switch to the new iMosflm GUI as the X11
version is now inferior and will no longer be supported.
For expert users, iMosflm now has the option of specifying ipmosflm
keywords for the very specialised options that are only rarely used
and are not yet included in the iMosflm GUI explicitly.
When the user selects the indexing panel, iMosflm will automatically
pick what it thinks are two appropriate images, find spots, autoindex
and estimate the mosaicity all in one go.
A "wait" option allows images that have not yet been collected when
the iMosflm session is started to be included in an integration run
(previously this was not possible). This is useful when processing
data as it is collected at a synchrotron (or on a home source).
The "testgen" option, which calculates the maximum oscillation angle
possible while avoiding spot overlaps, or reports the number of
overlaps for provided oscillation angles, has been fully implemented.
It is possible to run both POINTLESS and SCALA directly from the
iMosflm GUI. Results are reported in a web browser using Baubles. In
both cases, the programs can only be run in default mode (no user
input is possible). The iMosflm Tutorial has been updated.
Enhancements to ipmosflm
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Significant improvements in the spot finding routine when dealing with
very weak images or very long unit cells resulting in poorly resolved
spots. The improved spot finding increases the success rate of the
autoindexing. and some changes to the indexing itself has further
improved the reliability of indexing.
New detectors such as the Pilatus, Saturn, Jupiter, Oxford Diffraction
and Bruker CCDs can all be handled better than previously.
Many bugs fixed
Harry, Luke and Andrew
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Harry Powell,
Luke Kontoggianis
Andrew Leslie
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC Centre, Hills Road,
Cambridge, CB2 0QH
