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A visual data flow environment for macromolecular crystallographic computing
Institution:1. Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 19700 Helix Drive, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA;2. Structural Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA;3. Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Departments of Biological Chemistry and Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Abstract:This article describes the integration of programs from the widely used CCP4 macromolecular crystallography package into a modern data flow visualization environment (application visualization system AVS]), which provides a simple graphical user interface, a visual programming paradigm, and a variety of 1-, 2-, and 3-D data visualization tools for the display of graphical information and the results of crystallographic calculations, such as electron density and Patterson maps. The CCP4 suite comprises a number of separate Fortran 77 programs, which communicate via common file formats. Each program is encapsulated into an AVS macro module, and may be linked to others in a data flow network, reflecting the nature of many crystallo-graphic calculations. Named pipes are used to pass input parameters from a graphical user interface to the program module, and also to intercept line printer output, which can be filtered to extract graphical information and significant numerical parameters. These may be passed to downstream modules, permitting calculations to be automated if no user interaction is required, or giving the user the opportunity to make selections in an interactive manner.
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