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authorThomas White <taw@physics.org>2010-07-01 15:14:56 +0200
committerThomas White <taw@physics.org>2012-02-22 15:26:52 +0100
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For minimal basic use, you need to provide the list of diffraction patterns,
the method which will be used to index (currently there is only one available
-method), a file describing the geometry of the detector, and a PDB file which
-contains the unit cell which will be used for the indexing.
-
-Syntax: src/indexamajig [options]
-
-Process and index FEL diffraction images.
-
- -h, --help Display this help message.
-
- -i, --input=<filename> Specify file containing list of images to process.
- '-' means stdin, which is the default.
-
- --indexing=<method> Use 'method' for indexing. Choose from:
- none : no indexing
- dirax : invoke DirAx
- -g. --geometry=<file> Get detector geometry from file.
-
-
-With just the above options, this program does not do much of practical use.
-You should also enable some of the following:
-
- --near-bragg Output a list of reflection intensities to stdout.
- When pixels with fractional indices within 0.1 of
- integer values (the Bragg condition) are found,
- the integral of pixels within a ten pixel radius
- of the nearest-to-Bragg pixel will be reported as
- the intensity. The centroid of the pixels will
- be given as the coordinates, as well as the h,k,l
- (integer) indices of the reflection. If a peak
- was located by the initial peak search close to
- the "near Bragg" location, its coordinates will
- be taken as the centre instead.
- --simulate Simulate the diffraction pattern using the indexed
- unit cell. The simulated pattern will be saved
- as "simulated.h5". You can TRY to combine this
- with "-j <n>" with n greater than 1, but it's
- not a good idea.
- --filter-cm Perform common-mode noise subtraction on images
- before proceeding. Intensities will be extracted
- from the image as it is after this processing.
- --filter-noise Apply an aggressive noise filter which sets all
- pixels in each 3x3 region to zero if any of them
- have negative values. Intensity measurement will
- be performed on the image as it was before this.
- --write-drx Write 'xfel.drx' for visualisation of reciprocal
- space. Implied by any indexing method other than
- 'none'. Beware: the units in this file are
- reciprocal Angstroms.
- --dump-peaks Write the results of the peak search to stdout.
- The intensities in this list are from the
- centroid/integration procedure.
- --no-match Don't attempt to match the indexed cell to the
- model, just proceed with the one generated by the
- auto-indexing procedure.
- --unpolarized Don't correct for the polarisation of the X-rays.
- --check-sanity Check that indexed locations approximately correspond
- with detected peaks.
-
-
-Options for greater performance or verbosity:
-
- --verbose Be verbose about indexing.
- --gpu Use the GPU to speed up the simulation.
- -j <n> Run <n> analyses in parallel. Default 1.
-
-
-Control of model and data input:
-
- --intensities=<file> Specify file containing reflection intensities
- to use when simulating.
- -p, --pdb=<file> PDB file from which to get the unit cell to match.
- -x, --prefix=<p> Prefix filenames from input file with 'p'.
+method), a file describing the geometry of the detector, a PDB file which
+contains the unit cell which will be used for the indexing, and that you'd like
+the program to output a list of intensities for each successfully indexed
+pattern. You should redirect the output (stdout, but not stderr) of the program
+to a file for later analysis. Here is what the minimal use looks like on the
+command line, with each argument shown on a separate line. In practice, you'd
+put this all on one line:
+
+indexamajig
+-i mypatternlist.lst
+--indexing=dirax
+--geometry mygeometry.geom
+-p mystructure.pdb
+--near-bragg
+> myoutputfile.txt
+
+More typical use includes all the above, but might also include a noise or
+common mode filter (--filter-noise or --filter-cm respectively) if detector
+noise causes problems for the peak detection. The HDF5 files might be in some
+folder a long way from the current directory, so you might want to specify a
+full pathname to be added in front of each filename. You'll probably want to
+run more than one indexing job at a time (-j <n>), and you might want to correct
+the intensities of saturated peaks according to a list stored elsewhere in the
+HDF5 file:
+
+indexamajig
+-i mypatternlist.lst
+--indexing=dirax
+--geometry mygeometry.geom
+-p mystructure.pdb
+--near-bragg
+--filter-noise
+--prefix=/some/horribly/long/pathname/ending/in/a/slash/
+-j 16
+--sat-corr
+> myoutputfile.txt
+
+The table of saturation values for --sat-corr should be located in the HDF5 file
+as follows: /processing/hitfinder/peakinfo_saturated. It should be an n*3 two
+dimensional array, where the first two columns contain x and y coordinates and
+the third contains the value which should belong in a peak at location x,y. The
+value will be divided by 5 and spread in a small cross centred on that location.
+
+See doc/geometry for information about how to create a geometry description
+file.
+
+
+Unconventional Use
+------------------
+
+There are some less often used options, for example "--dump-peaks" to dump the
+peak locations found by the peak search (in turn presented to the indexer).
+This might be useful if you want to check the performance of the peak finder.
+If you run a large dataset with bot --dump-peaks and --near-bragg enabled,
+you'll generate a large amount of data. To separate the peaks from the
+indexed peaks, use scripts/stream-split as follows:
+
+scripts/stream-split myoutputfile.txt indexed.txt peaks.txt
+
+.. to generate both indexed.txt and peaks.txt. One of the last two arguments
+can be "/dev/null" if you're only interested in the other.
+
+
+"Gotchas"
+---------
+
+Don't run more than one indexamajig jobs simultaneously in the same working
+directory - they'll overwrite each other's DirAx files, causing subtle problems
+which can't easily be detected.