Supported Applications

XIA2

Description

an expert system for automated reduction of X-Ray diffraction data from macromolecular crystals, making use of existing software (CCP4, XDS, Phenix, CCTBX.) XIA2 is now included with DIALS.
Usage
Primary Citation*

G. Winter. 2010. xia2: an expert system for macromolecular crystallography data reduction. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 43(1): 186-190.
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Tales

The Raw and the Cooked

Graeme Winter, author of the xia2 x-ray crystallography data processing software, got his start programming during a stint as an astrophysics graduate student working on software to simulate galaxies. He left astrophysics behind, leveraging his newly minted programming skills to land himself a job as a programmer in crystallography at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK.

Crystallography stuck. It wasn't the programming that hooked him, but the mathematics. "Each step in the crystallographic process involves several different areas of mathematics, so I quite enjoyed that aspect of it," says Winter, who is now a scientist at the UK's Diamond Light Source.

The idea for xia2, originally xia, short for Crystallographic Infrastructure for Automation, came to Winter while working at LMB on a graphical …
Read the full story here.
Webinars

Topic: Automated Data Analysis with xia2
Presenter: Graeme Winter, Scientist, Diamond Light Source, UK

Host: Paul Sanschagrin
Recorded on April 18, 2013

Keywords

Crystallography
Default Versions

Linux 64: 0.6.467 (1.3 KB)
OS X INTEL: 0.6.467 (1.1 KB)
Other Versions
- OS X INTEL:
  0.3.6.2 (1.1 KB) , 0.3.6.3 (1.1 KB) , 0.3.8.0 (1.1 KB) , 0.7.107 (1.1 KB) , 0.7.90 (1.1 KB) , 0.7.97 (1.1 KB)
Developers

Graeme Winter