Hi folks
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest versions of Mosflm and
iMosflm. They are available from our website at
http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/harry/mosflm
While we have concentrated on making the programs more robust and easier to
use, there are also a number of new features, particularly in iMosflm - see
http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/harry/mosflm/ver707/mosflm_user_guide.html#major_changes
for full details, but here's a brief list:
iMosflm
New features and improvements:
Open several or a range of images with CTRL-click or SHIFT-click, respectively.
Display of the active mask for images from Rigaku detectors can now be toggled.
Plots of the number of overloads, spatial overlaps and 'bad spots' for each
image can now be displayed .
Warning messages have been enhanced with feedback from Mosflm
Automatic spot finding can be disabled when entering Autoindexing.
QuickScale can now be run either treating data as anomalous or ignoring
anomalous data in Scala. Symmetry known to iMosflm can now be passed to
Pointless when running QuickScale.
The program Ctruncate is now run automatically following Scala when using the
QuickScale button.
Site specific parameters can be read from a saved Mosflm file (.mos) on startup
using the ~init command line argument.
The 'View' menu has been renamed 'Settings' in the main iMosflm interface
window. The small cross in the Warnings pop-up box has been replaced by a
green, tick icon.
A new entry field, 'Size of smaller fraction of summed partials', has been
added to Processing options ~ Advanced refinement. With its default, initial
value of 0.25 this will set the proportions that partials are divided into for
post-refinement so that 0.25 of the intensity is in part one and 0.75 in part
two. Values from 0.2 to 0.5 are permitted. Previous default value was 0.5.
Mosflm
New features and improvements:
Better support for Pilatus (including ESRF-ID29) & Rigaku detectors.
Improved stability in postrefinement, so Mosflm refines mosaic spread to
negative values less often; also add user control over partitioning of partials
for postrefinement, and for re-scaling the normal matrix.
Improved detection of blank images.
Change number of segments generated automatically for postrefinement by iMosflm
- now four segments for triclinic, three for monoclinic and orthorhombic, two
for higher symmetry.
Increase allowed length of filenames to 400 characters for images, directories,
temporary files.
Can now index some samples containing multiple lattices.
Image names can now start with digits and have no alphabetic characters, and no
extension either.
Many, many bug fixes and better communications with iMosflm.
Harry, Andrew & Owen
--
Dr Harry Powell, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC Centre, Hills Road,
Cambridge, CB2 0QH
