Micrograph Data Processing Program

Description:

MDPP is a fully-featured general purpose image processing package originally written to support research in structural biology requiring electron microscopy and image processing. It has focused on the analysis of images using Fourier techniques, particularly periodic images, but has extensive tools for other processing options (e.g. DNA sequencing, point-counting, image quantitation and display). Three-dimensional reconstruction methods are supported, including iterative deconvolution schemes for light micrographs. Color images are supported with both color pallet and RGB options.

The package is easy to install and use, even by the novice user. Extensive documentation is included and is accessible from within the program as on-line HELP and also as HTML documentation. Care has been taken to support interfaces to other image processing packages, e.g. Macintosh applications via the TIFF image format, and other EM-targeted image processing packages such as Spider, Semper, PIC and the MRC package. The basic package is command-line driven, but the user can choose to write sophisticated command scripts and use a menu-driven full-screen or MOTIF interface to call them. Foreground and background operation is supported.

Operating Systems: OpenVMS on Itanium and Alpha (and VAX should still work) v7.1 and above; Tru64 UNIX all versions; MacOSX.3 and above; Linux should work but will require a recompilation of the MacOSX code (should be clean with the Absoft compilers); Sun and SGI should compile from the OSX code but there will need to be minor code changes.

Requirements: MDPP is a "Terminal Application"; it runs from the command-line in a terminal window. Hosts: HP VAX, AXP and IA64 with OpenVMS; HP Alpha with Tru64 UNIX; Macintosh G4 and G5 with OSX.4 (Tiger). Displays: Any X-Windows/R4 Server (Motif for full functionality under UNIX). On a Mac start the X11 application and run MDPP from inside an xterm window for best results. Compilers: FORTRAN V7.0 or later is required for VMS systems; Absoft v9.2 or later for Mac/Linux.

Distribution: The software is distributed as linked executable images for OpenVMS/IA64 and AXP and MacOSX.4, plus tar archives of the package segments, compressed with "gzip". gzip and VMSTAR for VMS are available via FTP to unpack the archive.

Availability: MDPP will be available from this web site. Other sources may become available in the future.

Getting Started: MDPP is distributed as "tar" archives containing both VMS and UNIX distributions. Consult the installation information HERE for the information you need to set up the program.

The older DECUS distributions are now obsolete and should be be used.

Support The development of this software has been supported in part by the NSF through grant 9410750 to P.R. Smith and through the generous provision of hardware resources by Hewlett-Packard Corp. and Intel Corp, for which we are very grateful.

Link to the MDPP documentation