===== FAQ ===== This is the new EMAN Frequently Asked Questions page : * YOU MUST CREATE AN ACCOUNT FOR YOURSELF TO EDIT THIS PAGE. Click on the Login button above, then follow the UserPreferences link. * Create a new link below by copying an existing one, and put a summary of your question as the description * Save the page, then follow the new link you created * Put the details of your question on the new page * Automatic email will be sent to the EMAN developers * If you 'subscribe' to the new page you created, you will get an email when an answer is posted. ==== The Questions: ==== - [[FAQ_EMAN_USING_13|What paper should I cite if I use EMAN1 in published results ?]] **Installing EMAN:** - [[EMAN1:FAQ:GUI1|I installed EMAN 1.8, all command line programs work OK. But if I run GUI program, it gives me error: "error while loading shared libraries: libXinerama.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory "?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:SELinux|After I installed EMAN 1.8 on Fedora Core 6, I get this error message when I type eman: "EMAN/lib/libqsci.so cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied"?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:CMAKE1|I am trying to install CMAKE from source, but I only get three program cmake, cpack and ctest, I do not have ccmake. But no error message in compilation process. What am I missing here?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:INSTALLER1|I download the EMAN 1.8 binary for linux, the file unpacked fine, but the installer does not seem to run. It returns immediately and print out message like this: "Please add the following line to the end of your /home/gtang/.bashrc: source /home/gtang/EMAN/eman.bashrc." Is this normal?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:QT4|Can I compile EMAN with qt4?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:FFTW3|Can I compile EMAN with fftw3?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:FFTWGEL|What is fftwgel, should I use it instead of fftw2?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:Ubuntu_baddevice_error|I build eman on my Ubuntu 7.04, when I type 'eman', before the window shows up, I see the error message dispalys 'X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169'. I installed the binary release for Ubuntu, the same thing happens. What is it?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:MacOSLibrary|I compiled EMAN on Mac OS X, and set up the environment variables. But when I import EMAN in Python prompt, I got error "ImportError: No module named libpyAligner2". I checked my EMAN/lib directory, there is a libpyAligner2.dylib file in it.]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_17|How do I compile EMAN for OSX(Mac) ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:MSVCR80.dll|After successfull installation (WinXP) of EMAN I get the following error-message: 'This application has failed to start because MSVCR80.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.', when trying to start boxer (or any of the other programs). Re-installation does not resolve the problem. What can I do to get EMAN to run?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:RHEL4|I installed EMAN 1.8 on RHEL 4.0, I get error when I open any GUI programs: "couldn't open fontconfigs chose font with Xft!!!", what should I do?]] **Preprocessing, Particle Picking & CTF:** - [[EMAN1:FAQ:MultipleBoxer|Boxer - How can I use boxer to evaluate and clean up the automatically selected particles from batchboxer ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:CtfHowTo|What process should I follow to do CTF correction in EMAN1]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:Ctf|How does CTF correction work in EMAN (technical)]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:StructureFactor|CTF Correction - I Don't have a structure factor and can't do a solution scattering experiment. What should I do ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_23|I'm trying to do manual CTF correction. Did I understand it right, that the aim of the sliders it to get the theoretical curve and the "data-curve" congruent? If so, to what extent should this be done? I am curently playing around with that feature and am not sure how curves should match as I did not succeed to get everything congruent]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_25|If I have particles already picked and 'extracted' using a picking software other than 'boxer', how can I put them all into a '.hed' file so as to use them with EMAN?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_28|I want to simulate noise and CTF to generate "real" EM-pictures from the projections of my molecule, just as you did in the orginal EMAN-paper for the BTV trimer. When I measure the carbon-film and use ctfit to determine the ctf, are the noise-levels determined simultaneously? How do I apply these parameters to the pictures?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:TranslateParticles|I would like to shift a stack of particles according to a x,y document (whole integers to avoid interpolation), and I wonder if it is possible with eman ?]] **2-D Analysis/Classification:** - [[EMAN1:FAQ:Refine2dpy_centering|Centering - Should my data set be well centered before I run refine2d.py?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:Refine2d_classes|How do I extract images from specific classes after running refine2d.py ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:D2_Symmetry|How can I align and average a set of particles in 2-D with symmetry ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_20|Symmetry determination - Do you have a facility for calculating rotational power spectra ? How can I determine the symmetry of my particles ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_33|Some of the classsums look a bit off centered and it gets worse as I do more rounds of refinement. Our structure looks more funny as I refine further ... what should I do?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:Startnrclasses|When I look at the results of startnrclasses in matrix view and select show # of particles per class, the number is not displayed. Any suggestions?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:Refine2dNinitcls|Whatever number of classes is chosen always 10 classes are produced]] **Initial 3-D Models:** - [[EMAN1/FAQ/Asymmetric|I have an asymmetric particle. How do I get a starting model and refine it]] - [[FAQ_EMAN_USING_31|What sort of problems will EMAN have with initial model bias ? What if I can't get my structure to converge to something sensible in EMAN, but I can in another program ?]] **Refinement** - [[EMAN1:FAQ:Refine|What do all of the options in 'refine' mean]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:Ctf|How does CTF correction work in EMAN]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:FSC_FSC|My FSC curve looks funny]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_22|How can I find out how many particles were used in a reconstruction ? How can I look at the particles that were discarded ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_27|Is there anywhere that explains the text output of the classification and model construction routines? being impatient and having calculated several completely bogus models of my asymmetric particle, I am hoping there is a way to tell fromt he numbers when it might be better to stop the procedure than to let it run on.]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_32|If I have a good template and a bunch of raw particles, is there a way to determine the particle center and orientation by some EMAN programs? In our reconstruction programs, we can get a set of parameters for each particle during refinement again a single reference. Including the x, y shift and 3 angle rotation. We are thinking about getting those parameters from EMAN.]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_33|Some of the classsums look a bit off centered and it gets worse as I do more rounds of refinement. Our structure looks more funny as I refine further ... what should I do?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_refine_shrink|What does the "shrink=n" do in Refine commmand? It doesn't look like changing the size of subfiles like proc2d shrink=n does]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:ClsLstFiles|Explain the contents of the 'cls*.lst' files (how can I easily extract particles in a particular orientation with 2D alignment ?)]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:ParticleLogFile|Explain the contents of the 'particle.log' file (how can I figure out which particle went in which class, and with what alignment parameters ?)]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:XFiles|How do I choose the correct parameters for the xfiles argument?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:Refineamask|How do I choose the correct parameters for the amask argument?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:DfiltOption|What in the heck is the dfilt option and how does it work ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:Classiter|Advice on using classiter= in iterative refinement rounds?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:MpiMake3d|How to use mpi version of make3d?]] **After Reconstruction - Structure Analysis** - [[EMAN1:FAQ:Diffmap|How can I make a difference map between two structures ?]] -[[EMAN1/FAQ/Filter_When_I_lowpass_filter_a_map_the_resolution_looks_too_high,_and_when_I_combine_multiple_filters,_the_results_aren't_what_I_expected.]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_31|What sort of problems will EMAN have with initial model bias ? What if I can't get my structure to converge to something sensible in EMAN, but I can in another program ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_34|What is the fsc.eotest file ?]] **Specimen Heterogeneity** - [[EMAN1:FAQ:HeterogeneousPhase|I want to use phase residual data to identify the number of heterogeneous populations in my data set]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:Heterogeneous|I have a good reconstruction, but my data is heterogeneous. How can I separate my data to better process it ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:Refine2d_classes|How do I extract images from specific classes after running refine2d.py ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_30|I have heard that EMAN can process heterogeneous data sets and produce multiple models, for example, to study dynamics or ligand binding]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:Handedness|How do I determine the handedness of my single particle reconstruction ?]] **General Questions** - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_13|What paper should I cite if I use EMAN1 in published results ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:WorkshopDVD|Where can I download the DVD from the last EMAN workshop ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:icos|Support for icosahedral symmetry]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:Dvd2007|I want to learn how to use EMAN, where can I get some sample data to try a reconstruction ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:e2scannereval_results|using e2scannereval - what is wrong with this image?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:CCP4_maps|problems reading maps created by CCP4 in EMAN]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_12|I read the documentation, and I still don't know what to do. How can I get more help ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_14|I've heard that (insert favorite program) runs much faster than EMAN. Is this true ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_15|I heard that someone did a refinement in (insert favorite program) and got a higher resolution structure than they did in EMAN. Is this true ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_16|I'm running EMAN in parallel on a cluster, and it seems to lock up when it reaches the class-averaging step (classalign2).]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_18|I'm trying my first EMAN refinement, but the refine command crashes or produces black images in classes.1.hed. What's going on?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_19|How can I read images in format ABC ? What file formats does EMAN support ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_24|I'd like to process a really big data set with EMAN. Is it up to the task ?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_29|I have a bunch of MRC convention Euler angles and need to generate projections of a model in EMAN]] **Bugs:** - [[EMAN1:FAQ:/Median|In EMAN 1.8 my class-averages have very strange numbers of particles listed, and this breaks the reconstruction]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_18|I'm trying my first EMAN refinement, but the refine command crashes or produces black images in classes.1.hed. What's going on?]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:USING_stdouttoobig|Our jobs are crashing because the stdout file is too big...]] - [[EMAN1:FAQ:Segfault|refine2d.py error: segmentation fault...]]