BL4-2 Software Overview
There are several computer programs for data acquisition, analysis and visualization available to the users at the BL4-2 beamline. Several of these programs have been developed and are maintained by the BioSAXS group at SSRL. They are mostly integrated into the general data aquisition system at the Beamline 4-2. As open source software the source code for these programs is available upon request (please contact the BL4-2 staff). Several other programs that are available at the beamline for data analysis and visualization that have been developed elsewhere. The following tables give and overview of the available software:
In-house software:
| Name | Source | brief description |
|---|---|---|
| Blu-Ice | SMB/SSRL | GUI for beamline control |
| SasTool | BL4-2/SSRL | convert 2d tiff image data to 1d intensity vs. q (azimuthal integration) |
| SAXSPipe | BL4-2/SSRL | automated SAXS data processing and analysis pipeline |
| SECPipe | BL4-2/SSRL | automated SEC-SAXS data processing and analysis pipeline |
| TRPipe | BL4-2/SSRL | time-resolved data processing |
| Graph-it | BL4-2/SSRL | data graphing and analysis |
| bl42-dat | BL4-2/SSRL | GUI for basic SAXS analysis |
External sources:
| Name | Source | brief description |
|---|---|---|
| ATSAS | EMBL | program suite for small-angle scattering data analysis from biological macromolecules |
| RAW | BioXTAS | program for analysis of Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) data |
| pymol | Schrodinger, LLC | molecular visualization system |
| chimera | UCSF | Interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures |
| fit2D | ESRF | 2D data processing package |