I remember when I started using ccp4 programs, that frustration of
writing scripts to run programs, and a relief when the first version of
the GUI became available.  I have to say that there is a joy in knowing
that students in 2020 will have to also write scripts to run unsupported
programs (who would guess that fft will be the one of those?).  

Does CCP4online provide an access to all these programs? I was hesitant
to switch, but it might be the push I needed. 

What about discussing these "not taken lightly" decisions on this forum
with, you know, users... Asking couple thousands people with combined
expertise of a few thousands of "X-ray crystallography" years, should
provide deeper insight into needs of community, than asking programmers
around. 

D. 

On 2020-07-07 12:17 PM, Eleanor Dodson wrote:

> I dont expect anyone to install these in the interface, and indeed if COOT 
> told you the symmetry operators in a comprehensive way the distang style 
> searches would be almost redundant .. But sometimes it helps to have textual 
> information.. clearer andeasier to record than graphical messages.. 
> E
> 
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 17:42, Christian Roth <christianroth...@gmail.com> 
> wrote: 
> 
> I understand that one is used to the programs one is familiar with and 
> Eleanor especially is very fond of these things, but there are several things 
> which can be done for example in Coot (symmetry coordinates etc) . It is just 
> another way to do it. I had the chance and pleasure to work for a while with 
> the programmers of some of these programs in one building and such decisions 
> are not taken lightly. But one cannot support all programs and write for 
> every program interfaces or even keep two interfaces alive. There are just 
> not enough people and money to do that. Also most scientific programmers 
> don't get paid to keep the things just running. Would it be better to have 
> also programmers to keep legacy up to date and write and update GUI's, maybe? 
> But again someone needs to pay for that. 
> Just my 2 cents. 
> 
> Cheers 
> Christian 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 6:30 PM Oganesyan, Vaheh 
> <vaheh.oganes...@astrazeneca.com> wrote: 
> 
> ... and how all these changes being justified? 
> 
> FROM: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> ON BEHALF OF Eleanor Dodson
> SENT: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 12:25 PM
> TO: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> SUBJECT: Re: [ccp4bb] Accessing full list of programs in CCP4I2 
> 
> Yes - there are things I use all the time which are not part of the CCP4I2 
> list
> 
> pdbset to generate symmetry equivalents  or find the centre of mass etc etc 
> 
> coordconv to turn orthogonal coordinates to fractional - after all we are 
> crystallographers and need to relate models to unit cells.. 
> 
> distang to do a quick check on crystal contacts.. 
> 
> nd there must be more.. 
> 
> Eleanor 
> 
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 17:16, Palm, Gottfried <p...@uni-greifswald.de> wrote: 
> 
> For occasions like Laus, it would be useful to further on have access to the 
> CCP4 v7.0 Program Documentation, 
> 
> even if the programs are not updated as Christian explained. 
> 
> I was for instance looking for translating coordinates as in pdbset, but 
> couldn't find a replacement in the ccp4i2 gui. 
> 
> Greetings 
> 
> Gottfried 
> 
> On Tuesday, 07-07-2020 at 18:00 Lau Kelvin wrote:
> 
> Ah I see! Great I can run it that way 
> 
> And yes, Eleanor, after I realized that list was gone, I was panicking that 
> there are some random things I used to do with those programs would no longer 
> be possible. Good to know that the command line versions are still there in 
> the 7.1 distro. 
> 
> Best, 
> 
> Kelvin 
> 
> -- 
> Kelvin Lau 
> 
> https://people.epfl.ch/kelvin.lau [1] 
> 
> Protein production and structure core facility - PTPSP
> EPFL SV PTECH PTPSP 
> AI 2146 (Bâtiment AI) 
> Station 19 
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> Switzerland
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> Phone: +41 21 69 30267 [2] 
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> If unreachable: +41 21 69 34494 [2] 
> 
> On 07.07.20, 15:51, "CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Christian Roth" 
> <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK on behalf of christianroth...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> ....yes Eleanor is right. command line still works. 
> 
> fft is also in 7.1 distribution. 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 3:43 PM Eleanor Dodson <eleanor.dod...@york.ac.uk> 
> wrote: 
> 
> Oh Lau - how I miss that list! 
> 
> But if you just run fft online it is still distributed..wombat:Downloads 
> eleanor$  
> 
> fft hklin .... mapout .... 
> 
> LABIN FP=  and so on..
> 
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 14:22, Christian Roth <christianroth...@gmail.com> 
> wrote: 
> 
> Hi Kelvin, 
> 
> well fft as single program is kind of not longer supported as is not ccp4i. 
> In i2 internally, as well in communication with mg or coot, everything is 
> done using map coefficients. 
> 
> Their are two options: 
> 
> First via i2: Use the unusual map coefficients Task and choose not to compare 
> maps, but to generate the map coefficients plus a map (button is in Advanced 
> tab) the standard grid parameters can be changed, but are actually optimized 
> already. 
> 
> Second just save the map out of Coot (Export map) 
> 
> To avoid redundancy, the old fft task was discontinued. i2 works with 
> coefficients, which generates smaller files and Coot provides all the 
> functions to generate the map and is its own gui. 
> 
> Hope that explains a bit why things are how they are now. 
> 
> Cheers 
> 
> Christian 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 1:56 PM Lau Kelvin <kelvin....@epfl.ch> wrote: 
> 
> Hi Christian, 
> 
> I was in particular looking for the fft program (I couldn't find that using 
> the method you described) just to convert an mtz into a .map. Before in 
> version 7.0 I could just browse all programs, now it seems like I cannot do 
> that (other than using the filter, and some seem to be missing) 
> 
> At the end I just used mtz2map in phenix. 
> 
> -- 
> Kelvin Lau 
> 
> https://people.epfl.ch/kelvin.lau [1] 
> 
> Protein production and structure core facility - PTPSP
> EPFL SV PTECH PTPSP 
> AI 2146 (Bâtiment AI) 
> Station 19 
> CH-1015 Lausanne
> Switzerland
> Email: kelvin....@epfl.ch
> Phone: +41 21 69 30267 [2] 
> 
> If unreachable: +41 21 69 34494 [2] 
> 
> On 06.07.20, 13:34, "Christian Roth" <christianroth...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> Hi Kelvin, 
> 
> not quite sure if I understand you correctly,  but if you press the Task 
> Manager button you get on the right sight a list of topics (import data, 
> Molecular Replacemnt etc.) each point can be open up like a file tree to see 
> all programs or pipelines available. You can search with the search field 
> (Filter) on top for specific program names. 
> 
> Does that help? 
> 
> Cheers 
> 
> Christian 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 1:15 PM Lau Kelvin <kelvin....@epfl.ch> wrote: 
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I am looking for a way to find the list of programs accessible using the new 
> 7.1 CCP4I2 interface? Is this still possible or do I have to revert back to 
> version 7.0? 
> 
> Best regards, 
> 
> Kelvin 
> 
> -- 
> Kelvin Lau 
> 
> https://people.epfl.ch/kelvin.lau [1] 
> 
> Protein production and structure core facility - PTPSP
> EPFL SV PTECH PTPSP 
> AI 2146 (Bâtiment AI) 
> Station 19 
> CH-1015 Lausanne
> Switzerland
> Email: kelvin....@epfl.ch
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> 
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