Welcome to the Crystallography Software Repository 

What is it?

The software repository is an automated archive for maintaining software of interest to the crystallographic community. The archive operates in two modes:

  1. submission - make an entry into the archive
  2. view - find out what software is available and how to get it

That is, the author of software completes a form describing that software (submission mode). That form is then automatically translated into an entry which can be viewed by the community using a Web browser or downloaded from an ftp archive (view mode). Web entries can be viewed in one of several ways:

  • Alphabetically
  • By date of submission
  • By operating system supported
  • By the function of the software

An author of an entry requests its removal or update by sending mail to the repository editor

Contents of an Entry

Here is a sample entry:

Name of Software: WPDB
Type of Software: Package
Deposition Date: Thu Feb 22 14:50:44 1996
Location (Anonymous FTP): ftp://rosebud.sdsc.edu/pub/sdsc/biology/WPDB
Web Site (URL): http://www.sdsc.edu/0/CCMS/Packages/wpdb.html
Primary Contact Person: Phil Bourne
Contact's Address: San Diego Supercomputer Center
2nd line: PO Box 85608, San Diego CA 92186-9784
Contact's Phone: 1-619-5348301
Contact's Fax: 1-619-5345113
Contact's Email: bourne@sdsc.edu
Other Authors: Ilya Shindyalov
Primary Citation: Shindyalov and Bourne (1995) J. App. Cryst. 28(6) 847-852.
Operating Systems Supported: MS Windows
Hardware Types Supported: Minimum of a 486/33
Restrictions:
One Sentence Description: The Protein Data Bank through Microsoft Windows

Complete Software Description: The PDB through windows, or WPDB for short, is a Microsoft Windows based program to interrogate the 3-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules as found in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) using query and display tools like those shown above.

Submission

Phone

Phone numbers should be given in the form country_code-area_code-number e.g. 01-123-4567891.

Operating System

Select the operating systems for which the software is known to work. If it works on more than one operating system hold the control key down while clicking the mouse to select multiple entries.

Restrictions

Enter any known restictions for the software, these could be computing related or crystallographic related. For example, software only functions for a select number of space groups.

Hardware Types

Indicate any restrictions on the types are hardware that the software operates beyond those restrictions implied by the operating system. For example, requires 16 bit emulation mode.

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Last Update Feb 29, 1996