Overview
What is Olex2?
Documentation
Searchable and Structured Olex2 Documentation
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Writing meaningful documentation for a program as complex as Olex2 is very hard. Right from the start of Olex2 in 2004, we always dreamed about (and tried hard!) to produce crystallographic software that is so intuitive, that no documentation would be required. Well, some documentation will always be required, and here’s our attempt at it.
Ilia’s Manual
By far the best manual for Olex2 has been written and marvellously maintained by Ilia Guzei. You can download the manual here. Thank you, Ilia!
Search for it
Simply use the Search Box to look for content, or follow the navigation tree on the left - the choice is yours!
Documentation in other Languages
Right now, all of our own documentation is in English. Over the years, many of our users have contributed a wealth of material in many languages.
As we further update this Site, Documentation in different languages is best found by searching the Web for them.
Olex2: A living project!
Since Olex2 is under constant development, it is a real challenge to keep up with a meaningful documentation of a large program like Olex2.
This is our attempt at putting everything into one place.
The documentation effort you are looking at right now is generated via GitHub – and we invite you to contribute to it.
Please get in touch if you would like to help us with it!
Tool Tabs
Descripton of all tool tabs in Olex2
Getting Started
Download, install and configure Olex2
Basic Concepts
Basic concepts relevant to X-ray structure determination
Tasks
Common tasks and how to go about them: Use-Case scenarios.
Tutorials
Here are some case studies (well, one at the moment!…) – step-by-step
NoSpherA2
Atoms are not spheres! Non-Spherical Atoms in Olex2.
Model Diagnostics
Tools to help you understand what is going on with your model – and where there might be problems.
Reference
Low level reference
Glossary
Terms, that are frequently used and which require a definition