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COOT Notes

  • COOT 1.1.20 is available as non-default versions for both Linux and macOS as a stand-alone title more details.
  • On macOS 26, 0.9.x and earlier coot versions are not currently functional due to XQuartz issues. 1.1.20 does not require XQuartz OpenGL.
  • PHENIX/COOT integration currently requires COOT 0.9.x or earlier.

Configuring COOT 1.1.20

There are many ways to configure coot in the SBGrid environment more details; one way to do this is to add the appropriate following section to your ~/.sbgrid.conf file (create it, if one does not already exist) and start a new shell.

If you see a "Bad version" message (ex - COOT_M 1.1.20_arm user (Bad version), you will need to install this coot version.

macOS arm64

_COOT=coot
COOT_M=1.1.20_arm

macOS x86

_COOT=coot
COOT_M=1.1.20_x86

Linux

_COOT=coot
COOT_X=1.1.20

installing

Under the user account managing the SBGrid installation (in other words, the output of the whoami command matches the Software Admin line in sbinfo output):

For arm based macs 

sbgrid-cli install coot@1.1.20_arm

For Intel based macs

sbgrid-cli install coot@1.1.20_x86

For Linux 

sbgrid-cli install coot@1.1.20

More details about sbgrid-cli.