DATGNOM4 manual

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© ATSAS Team, 2010-2012

Table of Contents

• Manual
  • Introduction
  • Running datgnom
    • Command-line arguments and options
    • Runtime output
  • datgnom input file
  • datgnom ouput file
• Example

Manual

The following sections shortly describe how to run DATGNOM from the command-line on any of the supported platforms, the required input and the produced output files.

If you use results from DATGNOM in your own publication, please cite:

M.V. Petoukhov, P.V. Konarev, A.G. Kikhney and D.I. Svergun (2007) ATSAS 2.1 - towards automated and web-supported small-angle scattering data analysis. J. Appl. Cryst. 40, s223-s228

Introduction

DATGNOM (formerly known as AUTOGNOM) is a tool for automated estimation of the maximum intramolecular distance D_max, computation of the distance distribution function p(r) and of the smooth regularized scattering curve (the Fourier transform of p(r)). DATGNOM automatically obtains the p(r) function from an indirect Fourier transform of the scattering profile repeatedly using a regularization procedure implemented in the program GNOM.

The optimum D_max is determined from automated comparison of the p(r) functions calculated at different D_max values ranging from 2R_g to 4R_g (with a step of 0.1R_g), where R_g is the expected radius of gyration. The calculated p(r) functions and corresponding fits to the experimental curves are compared using the perceptual criteria of GNOM, where the smoothness of p(r), absence of systematic deviations in the fit, stability of the solution etc. are merged into a total quality estimate. The behaviour of p(r) near D_max is taken into account to ensure that the p(r) function goes smoothly to zero.

Running datgnom

Usage:

$ datgnom4 <DATAFILE> [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS known by DATGNOM are described in next section, the required argument 'DATAFILE' in the section on input files.

Command-line arguments and options

DATGNOM requires one command line argument DATAFILE which is a data filename, possibly with relative or absolute path components.

DATGNOM recognizes following command-line options:

Runtime output

D_max and R_g computed from the p(r) are printed to stdout.

datgnom input file

DATAFILE must contain three columns: scattering vector, experimental intensity, experimental errors.

datgnom output file

Same as GNOM output.

Example

$ autorg bsa_003.dat -f table
File              Rg  stdev  I(0)    stdev  Guinier points   Quality
bsa_003.dat       3.03   1%  58.8       0%   39-135 ( 97)    85%

$ datgnom4 bsa_003.dat --Rg 3.03 --skip 38
Dmax =    10.377749999999999       Total =   0.75569896756708321
Guinier =    3.0300000000000000       Gnom =    3.1076350783882152

Here Dmax is the maximum intramolecular distance, Total is the total quality estimate, Guinier is the same value as the --Rg option, Gnom is the radius of gyration computed from the p(r). The output file will be named "bsa_003.out" because the --output option was not specified.