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. 2011 Apr;67(Pt 4):235-42.
doi: 10.1107/S0907444910045749. Epub 2011 Mar 18.

Overview of the CCP4 suite and current developments

Martyn D Winn  1 , Charles C Ballard, Kevin D Cowtan, Eleanor J Dodson, Paul Emsley, Phil R Evans, Ronan M Keegan, Eugene B Krissinel, Andrew G W Leslie, Airlie McCoy, Stuart J McNicholas, Garib N Murshudov, Navraj S Pannu, Elizabeth A Potterton, Harold R Powell, Randy J Read, Alexei Vagin, Keith S Wilson
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Overview of the CCP4 suite and current developments

Martyn D Winn et al. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2011 Apr.

Abstract

The CCP4 (Collaborative Computational Project, Number 4) software suite is a collection of programs and associated data and software libraries which can be used for macromolecular structure determination by X-ray crystallography. The suite is designed to be flexible, allowing users a number of methods of achieving their aims. The programs are from a wide variety of sources but are connected by a common infrastructure provided by standard file formats, data objects and graphical interfaces. Structure solution by macromolecular crystallography is becoming increasingly automated and the CCP4 suite includes several automation pipelines. After giving a brief description of the evolution of CCP4 over the last 30 years, an overview of the current suite is given. While detailed descriptions are given in the accompanying articles, here it is shown how the individual programs contribute to a complete software package.

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Figure 1
The changing face of CCP4: (a) a typical script chaining programs together, (b) the ccp4i graphical user interface and (c) the molecular-graphics viewer Coot (Emsley et al., 2010 ▶) from which refinement and validation programs can be launched.
Figure 1
Figure 1
The changing face of CCP4: (a) a typical script chaining programs together, (b) the ccp4i graphical user interface and (c) the molecular-graphics viewer Coot (Emsley et al., 2010 ▶) from which refinement and validation programs can be launched.
Figure 2
Figure 2
The iMOSFLM interface, showing the main window and a display of one selected image.
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Figure 3
A montage of images from the molecular-graphics program CCP4mg (Potterton et al., 2004 ▶).
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