This is a BETA release. That means it may have a some bugs, and significant changes may still occur before the release version. That said, it does work, and has sucessfully been used on at least 7 molecules. Please contact me if you run into a specific problem that's not on the known bugs list. Happy reconstructing.
Once you've installed it just run 'eman' and press the 'step1' button. This will guide you through the reconstruction process.
To install the binaries:
EMAN may be somewhat difficult to compile. I've included all of the necessary
library distributions in the source archive now. There's also a makefile
which should work under linux, alpha (Tru64) and IRIX (SGI). 'make linux' will also work on linux-alpha,
however, due to known optimization problems with the gnu C++ compiler on Alpha's, resulting code will
be 3X slower than code compiled with digital's compiler. It is possible to run the Tru64 binaries
under linux, but some support libraries need to be copied (contact me for details).
Download the source archive (quite large) eman1.0b1.src.tgz
Unpack this archive in your home directory. 'tar -xvzf eman1.0b1.src.tgz' will do it if you have GNU tar installed. Otherwise, 'gzip -d eman1.0b1.src.tgz' and then 'tar -xvf eman1.0b1.src.tar'.
'cd EMAN/src', then read the README.FIRST file.
Let me know if you need to change anything to get it to compile on your machine. Good luck !!!
Here is the data set used in testing the program as described in our paper (submitted JSB June 1999). It is QUITE large. Don't download it unless you really want it.
EMAN does not rely on time/date information for any of its processing, and therefore isn't susceptible to Y2K problems. The only place where dates are used in this software are in the log files for informational purposes. In these places, EMAN uses 4 digit years computed with the standard Unix clock mechanism which is reliable until at least the year 2038, in some cases 2106 (depending on the machine). This standard is expected to be updated in the near future. Even in 2038, the operation of the software will be unaffected.
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