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Small-moiety crystallographic software
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The programs PLUTON, PLATON
and LEPAGE developed in the context of a national single
crystal service facility that we run in the Netherlands have been made
available via anonymous ftp.
Programs may be extracted free of charge by academic institutions. As
usual, the author can not guarantee that the software is bug-free.
Reports on bugs and suggestions may be helpful for future versions.
New versions are made available frequently (distinguished by a version
date).
The programs are mainly for UNIX-platform but a few are available as MS-DOS
executables.
This is a generalized look-alike of the popular PLUTO78. It can read data in
'CIF' format (e.g. generated by SHELXL-93. Graphics output includes
X-Window, Tektronix, HP-GL and PostScript.
A multipurpose crystallographic tool
- CIF-Compatible
- Automatic geometry analysis
- Table generation
- Automatic labeled ORTEPs (required by an increasing number of
periodicals)
- Validity checks (including the MISSYM algorithm
to detect missed crystallographic symmetry)
- The SQUEEZE/BYPASS filter for handling disordered solvents in structure
refinement, etc.
A MSDOS/PC program to investigate the metrical symmetry of a
translation lattice.
- Dr. A.L. Spek
- Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research
- Crystal and Structural Chemistry
- Utrecht University
- Padualaan 8
- 3584 CH Utrecht
- The Netherlands
- spea@xray.chem.ruu.nl
Please send your comments and your suggestions to Yves
Epelboin, epelboin@lmcp.jussieu.fr
.
Last update Sept. 18/09/1995 Y.E.
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