This collection of scripts acts as a graphical interface to the XDS
program package. Thus, you will need the XDS package from Wolfgang 
Kabsch in order to be able use this interface.

In order to run, you need to set some environmental parameters, this is done as
given in the file installation.txt.

Additionally, for making MTZ files from within the interface,
the CCP4 environment has to be set up.

For running phenix.xtriage, you of course need to have it on your path.

The interface runs on OSX. It has been succesfully used also on other Unix 
flavours, such as Irix and Linux. Let me know if you have any problems.

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Hints, problems (most of which I cannot help), etc. 

If you have an input file already, and you press the button for a new input
file, your old file will be OVERWRITTEN! Nice :) 

There are currently only buttons for getting 5 different detector-specific
input files for XDS. Tell me if you need more (or find the input file manually). 

The input files must have less than 80 characters/line. This may be a problem
in case you have a long path to your images, for example.
In this case, make a soft link:

       ln -s /your/path/is/too/long images

The general manual for XDS is reachable from the interface (you must install the
XDS_html_doc).

In text windows, you can scroll really fast by using the middle mouse button.

The refresh button always takes you to the end of the document.

The making of MTZ files has been simplified. The 'Quickie' button in XSCALE does
scaling and gives you the ready-to-use mtz file with 5% test set.

Note...every now and then I try to make it better. 
But as it works perfectly for me, my motivation might be a bit low... 

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latest changes:

late 2001
version 1

a running version that I was able to use myself and teach people to use
under the surface, VERY messy
numerous non-harmful bugs included

12.2.2002
version 1.01

a somewhat cleaned up version (only 6 separate scripts)
the program "cellparm" included
added "refresh" and "save&exit" buttons

7.5.2002
version 1.02

some minor changes in documentation
added buttons for RAXIS4 and SMARTCCD detectors

11.9.2002
version 1.03

changes in documentation
more compatible with the new version of XDS

4.3.2003
version 1.04

minor changes under the surface

4.11.2003
version 1.1

added option to view .HKL files
added option to view marccd and Mar345 images
added Extract Stats button
added "Anom." options to making MTZ files
added anisotropy analysis
added ANG for estimating oscillation angle 

12.11.2003
version 1.2

simplified MTZ generation, no editing of f2mtz input required
added instructions for the above
modified anisotropy analysis

11.02.2005
version 1.3

less text in buttons
font size can be set by the user on the command line, e.g. xdsi 12

27.10.2005
version 1.4

html manual can be used
ang2xds incorporated for Proteum2 system

xx.xx.2006
version 1.5

button for running phenix.xtriage added

31.8.2007
version 1.6

'Quickie' button to do scaling and mtz file in one click
anisotropy analysis removed (didn't work anyway:)
mtz file generation changed a bit (due to changes in XDS itself)

xx.xx.2009
version 1.7

modified to use xds-viewer instead of VIEW for image viewing, added a few image formats
the possibility of automatic outlier removal added to XSCALE

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Pete

(c) Petri Kursula 2001-9

The reference for XDSi is:

Kursula P. (2004) XDSi - a graphical interface for the data processing 
program XDS. J. Appl. Cryst. 37, 347-348.  

If you want your own copy, email me:
petri.kursula@oulu.fi

From the web page you can see any relevant news:
http://cc.oulu.fi/~pkursula/xdsi.html