Crystallographica + a large number of 'PLATON-related' tests.
- Publication
- Supplementary Material
- CIF-generation for Acta Cryst. Sections C & E
- Interfaces to other Packages
- POVRAY
- RASMOL
- RASTER3D
- CSD-CONQUEST
- F3D
- The SYSTEM-S Interface (SHELXS, SHELXL, SIR, DIRDIF)
- Data reduction of CAD4 data (program HELENA)
Note: Most PLATON features are currently available for non-protein structures only.
Depending on the desired type of calculations PLATON requires, similar to SHELX97, one
or two ASCII files (vide infra):
1. a coordinate (instruction) file (CIF, PDB, RES, FDAT, SPF)
2. and optionally a reflection file (HKL, FCF)
0.3 - PLATON has many Faces
PLATON comes with at least seven different faces, depending on the way the program is
invoked in a terminal window. This is accomplished with command line options and UNIX
style soft links.
PLATON. The molecular geometry tool with access to most of the additional build-in tools.
This is the (generic) native mode when the executable is invoked with the terminal console
command
platon. More details can be found in
Chapter 2.
PLUTON. The molecular graphics tool for the display of molecules in their
crystallographic environment. This mode is entered, as opposed to being invoked as one of
the PLATON menu options, when invoked (via a soft link to the
platon executable) as
pluton or (with the command line option '-p') as
platon -p.
More details on PLUTON can
be found in
Chapter 3.
SYSTEM S. The crystallographic supervisor shell for structure determination. This mode is
entered when invoked (via a soft link to the platon executable) as
s or as
platon -s. Details
for
SYSTEM-S can be found in
Chapter 10.
CIFCHK. The CIF Validation tool. This mode is entered when invoked (via a softlink to the
platon executable) as
cifchk or as
platon -u. Details can be found in
Chapter 8.
HELENA. Data reduction (i.e. generation of 'shelx.hkl') from raw CAD4-data. This mode is
entered when invoked (via a soft link to the platon executable) as
helena or as
platon -k .
See
Appendix-VII.
STIDY. Standardization of inorganic structural parameters following Parthe & Gelato (1984
). This mode is entered when invoked (via a soft link to the
platon executable) as
stidy or as
platon -Y. Details can be found in
Section 1.3.6.13.