Dear all
We are pleased to announce the release of iMosflm/Mosflm 7.2.0; this version
includes a number of new features as well as the usual "numerous bug fixes" -
• iMosflm now has a "known cell" indexing option that can be useful for
difficult cases if the cell parameters are known approximately. Thanks to
Takanori Nakane for this development.
• Removed need for the environment variable MOSFLM_EXEC to be set.
iMosflm should now use the executable distributed in the imosflm/bin directory
by default; if MOSFLM_EXEC is set it MUST point to a valid executable for the
current version of iMosflm.
• Missetting angles can be smoothed over several images, useful for
processing data from crystals with very small unit cell dimensions.
• Summed Pilatus images can be displayed to improve visualization of
weak fine-sliced Pilatus data.
• Summed Pilatus images can be used when finding spots for detector
parameter refinement.
• Images can be displayed in "reverse video" (i.e. light spots on a
dark background); this can help to see small spots on Pilatus images. The
user's choice is retained on exiting iMosflm.
• Mosflm crashing in CENTRS due to too few reflections available for
detector parameter refinement is now trapped and a warning message is given.
Robustness of refinement improved.
• iMosflm now deals correctly with "new style" Raxis-II images.
• iMosflm will now process images collected with the ADSC Pixel Array
Detector at APS and with Dectris Eiger 4M images collected at ESRF (detector
currently on beamline ID30a3) after extraction from HDF5 container. Images
collected on Dectris Eiger 1M at SLS can be processed after extraction from
HDF5 container, but the gaps between modules may not be recognised properly.
• Since version 7.1.3 iMosflm will deal correctly with images collected
using a vertical rotation axis as on station I24 at Diamond Light Source, but
it is still necessary to explicitly provide this information to iMosflm as it
is not yet stored in the image header. See
http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/harry/imosflm/ver720/introduction.html for full
details.
• iMosflm will check when opening a "session" file that it is a valid
XML file; if not, it will ask the user if they intended to open an image file.
• The iMosflm tutorial has been updated and now includes a "Tips"
section. Note that this is the ONLY documentation that has been updated to
describe new features.
• Many minor bug fixes and some new warnings (including unstable misset
angle refinement).
Downloads are available from
http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/harry/imosflm/ver720/introduction.html
or
http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/harry/mosflm/index.html (if you just want
Mosflm)
This is a bug-fix release which has no new features.
Harry
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Dr Harry Powell, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH
Chairman of International Union of Crystallography Commission on
Crystallographic Computing
Chairman of European Crystallographic Association SIG9 (Crystallographic
Computing)
Harry
--
Dr Harry Powell, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH
Chairman of International Union of Crystallography Commission on
Crystallographic Computing
Chairman of European Crystallographic Association SIG9 (Crystallographic
Computing)
