Sparx Documentation Wiki

Sparx documentation is available in a number of narratives and as collection of manual pages.

sparx book

• Introduction

• Examples

sparx manual pages

• List of commands and applications grouped by categories

• Frequently asked questions

How to?

• Download and install SPARX/EMAN2

• Use SPARX

• Read and write images in SPARX/EMAN2 and how to handle image file attributes (necessary to run programs in SPARX)

• Use CTF in SPARX

• Run-through example

• Run-through helical example

• Determine single particle structure using stain data

• Determine single particle structure using cryo data

• Analyze conformational variability using codimensional PCA

• Write user-supplied functions

• Use template

• Learn to appreciate (and even like) Euler angles and point group symmetries

• How to convert Chimera transformation matrices to Spider convention used in Sparx

• Report errors: use link (requires registration) http://blake.grid.bcm.edu/bugzilla

• Search: use link http://macro-em.org/sparxwiki/FindPage

• Write/edit a manual page

Things To Do / Requests

• Requests

Contact Us

• pawel.a.penczek@uth.tmc.edu