DIALS version control

Version control in DIALS

Programs of the DIALS suite are provided by DIALS, ccp4, and phenix. Currently the default DIALS suite is provided by phenix, regardless of whether you have standalone DIALS installed. As the versions provided by standalone DIALS and DIALS bundled with other software suites can differ, you may want to switch the default DIALS executables to a different source.

There are two main ways to do this, transient and persistent.

Transient way

For example, if you want to process your X-ray dataset once with the newest xia2, but want to leave the default SBGrid behavior untouched, you can call xia2 and tell SBGrid to use the DIALS version (using --sbapp:a dials) like this:

xia2 --sbapp:a dials pipeline=dials /path/to/your/data

Persistent way

However, if you want to process your dataset step-by-step using the newest DIALS version, it may be more comfortable to set DIALS as the default source of all dials.*** executables.

To do this, do

mkdir ~/.sbgrid_capsule
cd ~/.sbgrid_capsule
sbgrid-list dials |grep dials > list
for each in $(cat list); do echo dials > $each; done
rm list

Now all programs provided by dials that have 'dials' in their name will be called by default from the DIALS suite. Note that to use xia2 from DIALS, you will need to repeat the same steps selecting for binaries that contain 'xia2', like:

cd ~/.sbgrid_capsule
sbgrid-list dials |grep xia2 > list
for each in $(cat list); do echo dials > $each; done
rm list

To reset your configuration, simply delete the files in the ~/.sbgrid_capsule directory

Additional information on version control in SBGrid is provided here: SBGrid Capsules