Re: [cctbxbb] [ccp4bb] Staff Scientist position At Protein Production And Structure Core facility -- EPFL ---Switzerland

Thanks James for bringing this up, and Dorothee for the suggestions. There is some documentation already on the web at: https://cctbx.github.io I think this is what we should probably link to when we provide a link for the cctbx on a web site. I personally don’t find the github project page very helpful in pointing to this documentation - maybe that can be fixed. As to James’s original question, I think it would be great if we could do something (i.e. funded) to support documentation of cctbx. I’m open to all ideas.

On Sep 6, 2018, at 12:17 AM, Pojer Florence wrote:

Hi James,

Thanks for mentioning the issue.

Maybe at this point, it would be good to collect all available documentation/tutorials and list them in a centralized place (cctbx GitHub doc?).

There was a thread on this bb in 2015 which listed some documentation: http://www.phenix-online.org/pipermail/cctbxbb/2015-January/001042.html (Unfortunately, http://cctbxwiki.bravais.net/CCTBX_Wiki, which is listed there, seems to be offline...)

One could add maybe the cctbx newsletter articles and slides from workshops (such as your slides/material from the ECM computing school?). If anyone has additional suggestions for material, it would be good to add them to this thread.

A list of material does not replace a proper documentation, but it could be a starting point.

Best wishes,

Dorothee

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 3:38 AM [email protected] wrote: Dear all,

I recently attended the ECM computing school and gave some tutorials using cctbx. One of the comments that was pretty common was the lack of documentation in cctbx. In fact, a couple of people representing different groups said that the lack of documentation was a major reason for not using cctbx within their groups.

We had a discussion about this and Andrea mentioned that it was (is?) possible in Germany to to apply for a grant to maintain mature software that would cover things like writing documentation. So if this is still possible, we might be able to apply for some money to employ someone for a period of time to do this.

Anyway, given the number of comments I received about the lack of documentation, I thought it was worth raising the issue here.

Best wishes James

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