Aaproc 0.1.0 has been released. This is the first release made available to all users.

Aaproc (Auto Auto-Process) is a suite of programs for automatically auto-processing X-ray crystallography datasets. It includes a program, aap, for finding datasets on the file system and auto-processing them using external programs (e.g. autoPROC). The aap program writes a summary of dataset processing to a file named aap-result.html in the current working directory.

Aaproc is installed on the processing server (i.e. plankton). If we typically want to auto-process every dataset as it is collected at IMCA-CAT, Aaproc might be useful to us. An easy way to use it is to collect all datasets to their own directories somewhere below a particular directory tree. Let's say we collect all datasets under /depot17id/luke/20140725. Now simply do the following at a command shell:

$ cd /depot17id/luke/20140725 $ aap

The aap program will run indefinitely, detecting datasets as they are collected, will attempt to auto-process the datasets using autoPROC, and will write a processing summary to /depot17id/luke/20140725/aap-result.html as it goes. This will work equally well for data collected in manual or auto mode.

Documentation is available in the form of Unix manual pages. We can view the aap program manual by typing the following at a shell:

$ man aap

Similarly, we can view the aaproc.conf configuration file manual by typing the following at a shell:

$ man aaproc.conf