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Wayne
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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:39:20 +0100
From: Jane Stiles <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CCPN Analysis
Dear CCPN Members
As some people (those on the CCPNMR mailing list) already know, Analysis
1.0.5 has just been released. This year at the CCPN conference in
Ambleside we will have some CDs to distribute with this release on
it. During the poster sessions at Ambleside we also plan on giving ad hoc
demonstrations of Analysis where we can answer questions and demonstrate
the latest features.
Our primary concern is to make sure that NMR groups in the UK who want to
try out Analysis can do so relatively easily. Of course first and foremost
this means getting the software installed. For now the favoured platform
is Linux, although we have just gotten a Mac so hopefully that will also
be better supported in future. (Some people have already run it
successfully on the Mac but we could not easily support this until now.)
After installation there next comes the problem of using Analysis. There
is a tutorial which is available (as are the releases) at
http://www.ccpn.ac.uk/downloads/downloads.html. And we plan on doing
another course in Cambridge either shortly before or after Christmas.
Also, we would like to advertise that for both installation and help with
use we are happy to visit UK NMR labs.
On a more strategic point, we know that more functionality needs adding
into Analysis (e.g. useful 1D functionality, solid state). We can see
that we might not be able to add all of this functionality ourselves in as
short a timeframe as we would like. So one thing we would like to discuss
with people (either at Ambleside or via email for those not coming to
Ambleside) is how we might get more community code contributed.
Ultimately Analysis and related software should be, and be seen to be, a
community project (that was certainly the intent), for the benefit of all
NMR groups. This is especially true of UK groups, because CCPN is mainly a
BBSRC funded project. We realise this idea is non-trivial, in that a
contributor needs to be conversant with Python (not that bad), and the data
model and Analysis code (which are both somewhat difficult on first
approach). One thing we have just started to do, thanks to Wim Vranken, is
to add some example code directories. More of this is obviously needed.
Anyway, as said above, we would like input from the community on this.
Regards,
Wayne Boucher and Tim Stevens
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