This is version 4.20 of Gifa. Version 4.20 - dated 14 July 1997 The Gifa program is a multi-purpose NMR program. It is designed for the processing, the display and the analysis of 1D, 2D & 3D NMR data-sets. The program includes all the classical processing, displaying and plotting capabilities of an NMR program, as well as more advanced processing techniques such as Maximum Entropy processing or Linear prediction. There is no actual limit to the size of the data-set which can be processed. A complete macro language permits to builds sophisticated processing. The Graphic User Interface is fully designable and programmable by the user. This version 4.2 introduce a complete module for DOSY processing, as well as a general fitter. An assignment module has recently be added to the program. It is aimed toward the assignment of protein and peptides from a set of 2D homonuclear experiments. The program currently runs on several UNIX platforms. The graphics can be displayed on X-Windows terminals. Plots are generated on postscript or HP-GL devices. There is support for processing files coming from Varian and Bruker (AM, AMX, DMX) spectrometers, as well as more generic formats (ascii format, matlab (tm) files, etc..). Jeol and GE will be supported as soon as somebody can help me at this. This version is distributed under a licence. There is no fee for academic laboratories, however the licence requires that you refer to Gifa in any published work which depend in some manner on the Gifa program. Note that that Gifa could be used for several other purposes than NMR: - sophisticate image filtering (based on convolutions and Fourier Analysis) - a generic application generator (based on the macro language and the programmable GUI) (we actually use Gifa for the system management of the network) DISTRIBUTION ------------ This program can be downloaded by anonymous FTP on Internet, the home site is the following address : ftp://www.cbs.univ-montp1.fr/pub/gifa_v4 . There is also mirror sites : In Japan : at Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, ftp://ftp.ims.ac.jp/pub/unix/chem/gifa gopher://gopher.ims.ac.jp:70/11/tmp/pub-link/unix/chem/gifa In US. : Ohio Supercomputer Center, Colombus ftp://www.ccl.net/pub/chemistry/software/UNIX/gifa/ *______________________________________________________* * Check also * * http://www.cbs.univ-montp1.fr/GIFA/ * * * * The HOME PAGE of the software * *______________________________________________________* * * LICENCE ------- The distribution of Gifa is conditionned by a licence agreement that the user should sign to get a working program. In the distribution, you will find 4 versions of the licence agreement : licence_eng.ps the english version in postscript licence_eng.asc the english version in ascii license_fra.ps the french version in postscript license_fra.asc the french version in ascii Internationnal users should sign, Les utilisateurs dans un laboratoire fax, and mail me the english version. francais doivent signer, me telecopier, et me poster la version francaise. my fax number mon numero de fax : (33) (0)4 67 52 96 23 my address mon adresse : M.A.Delsuc CBS Faculte de Pharmacie 15 avenue Charles Flahault F-34060 Montpellier Cedex FRANCE my e-mail address mon adresse electronique : mad@cbs.univ-montp1.fr When registred you will get the licence, and the annoying message about some non-valid licence should go away. You will also enter the list of the registered people, and will get all informations related to the new release of Gifa. INSTALLATION ------------ The program is obtained by anonymous FTP at several addresses (see above) i.e. log with ftp on the server login as anonymous, give your e-mal address as password go to the gifa directory get the needed files In this distribution you will find the following files : makefile The basic command file for unpacking and installing the complete Gifa program. ...Just type make and follow the instructions gifav4_HPUX.tar.Z The binaries for HP 700 / HP-UX 9.0x gifav4_SGI.tar.Z The binaries for SGI R4000 / IRIS 5.x or 6.x gifav4_SGI_3000.tar.Z The binaries for SGI R3000 / IRIS 4.x or 5.x gifav4_RS6000.tar.Z The binaries for IBM RS6000 / AIX gifav4_SUN.tar.Z The binaries for SUN/Sparc SunOs 4.1.3 gifav4_SOL2.tar.Z The binaries for SUN/Sparc Solaris 2.4 gifav4_LINUX.tar.Z The binaries for PC Linux ...copy only the one you need for your machine ...missing binary files means that the port is not finished yet. ...Some versions are more tested than others, (SUN is the less tested) gifav4_basic.tar.Z The basic support files (macros, help, utilities,...) ...This one is needed ! gifav4_data.tar.Z Some data for demos ( ~6 Mega) ...This one is helpfull to learn how to use Gifa. doc/*.html The gifa documentation in Mosaic format doc/*.ps.Z The gifa documentation in Postscript ...only there as convenience, a copy is present in the gifav4_basic.tar.Z file. To summarize : Get : Makefile gifav4_YOUR_MACHINE.tar.Z gifav4_basic.tar.Z optionnally gifav4_data.tar.Z Type : make and follow the instructions The *.tar.Z files can then be deleted. The complete package takes about 16 Mega on the disk. From which about 6 are example files which can be removed. Installation, when decompressing the archives takes about 10 Mega more. REMARKS ------- This software is still in development, it intensely tested here in Montpellier on HP and SGI. Friends of mine test it on AIX and Linux. However the software is not finished yet. There are : -missing features, -features that are not yet implemented as in the manual,-commands that may change (slightly I hope, changes will be described in the follow-up), -known bugs, and of course -unknown bugs. Use it at your own risks, I am not liable for any loss of data, time, integrity, etc.. due to using this software. DISCLAIMER ---------- THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.