Help! Finding your way around CCP4

Maria Turkenburg

York Structural Biology Laboratory







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The CCP4 website

CCP4 Main Page

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The CCP4 website - What is CCP4?

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What is CCP4? - Referencing CCP4

Overall reference:

COLLABORATIVE COMPUTATIONAL PROJECT, NUMBER 4, 1994. "The CCP4 Suite: Programs for Protein Crystallography". Acta Cryst. D50, 760-763

References to individual programs:

In the individual program documentation

In 'REFERENCES.html' - not a definitive list

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What is CCP4? - CCP4 Resources

Helpdesk

ccp4@dl.ac.uk

Documentation

Individual program documentation

Crystallographic guidance

CCP4 manual

Problems pages

Tutorials, examples and test data sets

$CEXAM

'(Basic) Maths for Protein Crystallography'

Email distribution lists

ccp4bb, ccp4-dev and several project-based lists

Meetings

Newsletter

Online programs

Not meant to replace a home installation!

helpdesk how - documentation etc unhappy, problems professor - documentation, teaching hey, bulletin board newsletters CCP4 online home

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The CCP4 website - CCP4i

CCP4i main window

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CCP4i - Documentation

$CCP4I_HELP/index.html

CCP4i help navigation bar

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CCP4i Documentation - General Introduction

CCP4i Reference, Getting Started, Various 'GUI-tricks'.

Documentation and Help

There are various levels of documentation in and around CCP4i:
  • $CCP4I_HELP/index.html
  • 'Help' button
  • 'Message line help'
  • 'Bubble help'
  • 'Right mouse button help'
CCP4i task window

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CCP4i - Problems with CCP4i

ccp4gui@dl.ac.uk or 'Mail CCP4' button in CCP4i Main Window

CCP4i Trouble Shooting page

CCP4 installation Problems Page

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The CCP4 website - CCP4mg

Links to Liz Potterton's and then to Stuart McNicholas' CCP4mg webpages.

CCP4 Molecular Graphics example 1 - space filling model CCP4 Molecular Graphics example 2 - red and blue stereo CCP4 Molecular Graphics example 3 - red and green stereo CCP4 Molecular Graphics example 4 - red and cyan stereo CCP4 Molecular Graphics example 5 - no stereo CCP4 Molecular Graphics example 6 - with electron density

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The CCP4 website - Downloads

Refers to License before Download Mickey Mouse license





CCP4 ftp site and mirror sites in USA and Japan

Mirror (Lake) USA Mirror Japan

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The CCP4 website - Documentation

<=<= Program Documentation - $CHTML

Tutorials - $CEXAM/tutorial/html/ =>=>

<=<= Roadmaps - $CCP4I_HELP/roadmaps/

General documentation - $CHTML =>=>

<=<= CCP4i Documentation - $CCP4I_HELP/

startpage \$CHTML startpage \$CEXAM/tutorial/html/ startpage \$CCP4I_HELP/roadmaps/ General section of \$CHTML startpage \$CCP4I_HELP/

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Documentation - $CHTML Program Documentation

Contains 'REFERENCES.html', extracted from individual program documentation

Alphabetical list (INDEX.html) and function grouping (FUNCTION.html)

Also contains links to:

startpage \$CHTML

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Documentation - Tutorials

Initially written for conference/workshop

HTML, to be used in conjunction with CCP4i

professor teaching maths CCP4i tutorial module

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Documentation - CCP4i

$CCP4I_HELP/index.html

CCP4i help navigation bar

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Documentation - PXMATHS

Notations and equations used in protein crystallography

Maths involved in phasing, phasing diagrams and intensity statistics

phasing diagram for SIRAS professor teaching maths

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Documentation - General Crystallographic Guidance

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Documentation - Roadmaps

Image map
with links to
other maps and
documentation

overview of macromolecular structure determination

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The CCP4 website - Courses

CCP4 Study Weekend
Proceedings (including back copies)
Photos
Other resources
CCP4 Workshops
CCP4 sponsored/attended Workshops and Conferences
ACA
BCA
St. Andrews Summer School
Study Weekend Workshop Study Weekend Jolly

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The CCP4 website - Developers

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Bulletin Board (ccp4-dev)

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For Developers and Daresbury Staff

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Information for contributors to CCP4

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test data resources

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release information

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ccp4i resources

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library routine templates

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how to write CCP4 documentation

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On-going projects

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libraries (coordinates, Clipper, common tasks, mathematical subroutines)

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automated testing

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mmCIF, XML, Windows NT, Fortran90

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Quick Guides

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gprof, SWIG, CVS

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Miscellaneous

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The CCP4 website - CCP4 People

Alexei Alun Bart Charles Chris Daniel Dan Eleanor Garib Eugene Guoguang Gwyndaf Harry Ian Jim Jorge Keith Kevin Liz Maeri Maria Martin Martyn Morten Neil Paul Pete Phil Randy Stuart Tadeusz Wendy Yao

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