The Graphical User Inteface

Index:

Introduction

Il Milione is a global phasing crystallographic software suite. Its capabilities include: full crystallographic processing of ab-initio phasing of single crystal diffraction data of small and medium size structures, specialized protein phasing techniques such as MAD/SAD, MIR/SIR, MIRAS/SIRAS, Molecular Replacement.

The suite is constituted by two programs (Sir2008 and SirProt) managed by a Graphical User Interface (GUI).

Input data and results are organized in projects. A project is the collection of all files and strategies referred to a structure. The project file name is built adding the suffix ilm to the name of the structure to be solved. The ilm files can be created and modified by means of the GUI

Installation

On Linux/Unix/OSX platforms

./configure --prefix=destination_directory --srcdir=ilmilione_source_directory FCFLAGS='fortran_flags'

Executable files will be stored in
              destination_directory/bin

Be sure that the destination_directory/bin is in the PATH

Options:

Default:
./configure --prefix=$HOME --srcdir=$PWD

If g95 is used
./configure --prefix=$HOME --srcdir=$PWD FCFLAGS='-fno-second-underscore -fsloppy-char' CPPFLAGS='-DG95' FC=g95

if Intel Fortran (ifort) is used
./configure --prefix=$HOME --srcdir=$PWD FC=ifort
or, on Fedora Core 4,
./configure --prefix=$HOME --srcdir=$PWD FCFLAGS='-no-ipo' FC=ifort

if NAG (f95) is used
./configure --prefix=$HOME --srcdir=$PWD FCFLAGS='-dusty -w' FC=f95

if Lahey (lf95) is used
./configure --prefix=$HOME --srcdir=$PWD FC=lf95

 

On MS Windows

Support

Il Milione is based on phasing methods, algorithms and code developed by the authors.To solve practical problems and to better understand the theoretical bases and the algorithms of il Milione the user may directly contact the following people.

For applicative aspects concerning:

Help on Procedures

Click on procedures to get help

  Ab Initio approach
  Mad/Sad technique
  Mir/Sir technique
 Miras/Siras technique
 Molecular Replacement technique
 Electron Density Modification and FreeLunch technique

Some theoretical hints on different features used by il Milione follow:

 

Reference:

Maria C. Burla, Rocco Caliandro, Mercedes Camalli, Benedetta Carrozzini, Giovanni Luca Cascarano, Liberato De Caro, Carmelo Giacovazzo, Giampiero Polidori, Dritan Siliqi, Riccardo Spagna  (2007)  

Il Milione:  a suite of computer  programs for crystal structure solution of proteins

J. Appl. Cryst. (2007). 40, 609-613