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GSAS‐II : the genesis of a modern open‐source all purpose crystallography software package
Author(s) -
Toby Brian H.,
Von Dreele Robert B.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of applied crystallography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.429
H-Index - 162
ISSN - 1600-5767
DOI - 10.1107/s0021889813003531
Subject(s) - python (programming language) , computer science , computation , graphics , source code , software , computational science , diffraction , crystallography , physics , computer graphics (images) , programming language , optics , chemistry
The newly developed GSAS‐II software is a general purpose package for data reduction, structure solution and structure refinement that can be used with both single‐crystal and powder diffraction data from both neutron and X‐ray sources, including laboratory and synchrotron sources, collected on both two‐ and one‐dimensional detectors. It is intended that GSAS‐II will eventually replace both the GSAS and the EXPGUI packages, as well as many other utilities. GSAS‐II is open source and is written largely in object‐oriented Python but offers speeds comparable to compiled code because of its reliance on the Python NumPy and SciPy packages for computation. It runs on all common computer platforms and offers highly integrated graphics, both for a user interface and for interpretation of parameters. The package can be applied to all stages of crystallographic analysis for constant‐wavelength X‐ray and neutron data. Plans for considerable additional development are discussed.