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@@ -48,17 +48,14 @@ CrystFEL. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. Thank you for reading the documentation. :-) CrystFEL is a suite of programs for processing (and simulating) Bragg -diffraction data acquired with a free electron laser. Some of the particular +diffraction data from "serial crystallography" experiments, often (but not +always) performed using an X-ray Free-Electron Laser. Some of the particular characteristics of such data which call for a specialised software suite are: - The sliced, rather than integrated, measurement of intensity data. Many, if - not all reflections are partially integrated. Unique correction factors are - needed. + not all reflections are partially integrated. -- The crystals are small, leading to significant Fourier truncation effects on - the detector. - -- Many patterns (>10,000) are required - high throughput is needed. +- Many patterns (thousands) are required - high throughput is needed. - The crystal orientations in each pattern are random and uncorrelated, meaning that: @@ -127,14 +124,12 @@ $ cmake .. $ make $ sudo make install -You can skip the first two steps (mkdir/cd), but it's not recommended. - At a minimum, you will need the HDF5 library (version 1.8.0 or later) and the GNU Scientific Library (GSL). For a full installation, you will also need -libTIFF, libPNG, Cairo and GTK2. All of these should be installed from your -distribution's package manager. Be sure to install the development files for -each package, which will have a name like "gtk+-2.0-dev" or "gtk+-2.0-devel", -depending on which distribution you use. +libTIFF, libPNG, Cairo, FFTW3, CBFLib and GTK2. All of these should be +installed from your distribution's package manager. Be sure to install the +development files for each package, which will have a name like "gtk+-2.0-dev" +or "gtk+-2.0-devel", depending on which distribution you use. If you get an error mentioning fftw3 and telling you to recompile with -fPIC, then your version of FFTW3 is not compiled in a suitable way. You'll need to |