Welcome to DPDAK

DPDAK is an open source (GPL) tool developed for (online) analysis of large sequences of small angle scattering data - but can be used for other data as well. It is written in Python and runs on Windows and Linux. The development is a cooperation between DESY and MPIKG.

The plugins ImageIntegration1d and SAXS/WAXS calibration use algorithms from the pyFAI package by Jerome Kieffer (ESRF).

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The latest release is 1.4.1:

• Because of memory error in  python pyFAI module (since version 0.11.0) for 32-bit machine, we release only 64-bit Windows version.

• Windows version:
    Supported Operating System:
  
  • Windows 7, Windows 10
    Required Software:
  
  • Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86, x64)

  • Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7

  • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5for 32-bit machine required also:
  • 
    
    • Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86)
    • Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)
    Hardware Requirements:
  
  • 
    
    • 2 GHz or faster processor
    • At least 2 GB of RAM; Recommend 4 GB RAM or higher
    • 670 MB of available hard disk space

           Download Windows version as zip-file: dpdak_win64bit_v1_4_1.zip

• Linux version:

           The Linux installation is just from source. To use the source package of dpdak you need to install the free Python programming language and some additional libraries.

           Most Linux systems have Python installed by default.

           The current version of dpdak needs the following Python version and packages:

• • Python (version 2.7)
  • wxPython
    
    • Version = 3.0.2.0
  • Python Imaging Library (PIL)
  • Pillow
  • NumPy
    • Version >= 1.11
  • SciPy
  • matplotlib
    • Version >= 1.4 recommended, though 2.0 might work as well.
  • NetworkX
  • fabio
  • pyFAI
    • Version >= 0.12
  • h5py
    • Version >= 2.6
  • hdf5plugin
  • lxml
  • pycairo
  • pyopencl
  • six

           Please make sure to choose the correct package versions for your Python installation, e.g. if you installed Python 2.7.11 32-bit you need to install all packages in their 2.7 version for 32-bit as well.

Download Linux version as zip-file: dpdak_Linux_v1_4_1.zip

For changes with respect to the previous version v1.3.1, please read the Release Notes v1.4.1.

You can find older releases at the Download page or in the Git repository.

Development/Test downloads

In order to prepare upcoming releases and test new features, you can try the development releases.

If you test these, please reply any issues or comments to the mailing list: dpdak@desy.de

You can find the downloads on the Development Releases page.

News

• 03.07.2019: Fix bugs in nexus_reader and in saxswaxs_integration_p03
• 14.12.2018: DPDAK meeting Golm Potsdam, Preparation of new release is ongoing
• 06.04.2018: DPDAK telephone conference   Hamburg, Preparation of new release is ongoing
• 20.07.2017: DPDAK meeting Hamburg, Preparation of new release is ongoing
• 13.09.2016: DPDAK meeting in Golm
• 04.05.2015: Version 1.2.0 of DPDAK is released.

Citation and Publication

If you use DPDAK in your publication, please cite it. The reference is:

A customizable software for fast reduction and analysis of large X-ray scattering data sets: applications of the new DPDAK package to small angle X-ray scattering and grazing-incidence small angle X-ray scattering, Benecke, G. et al., J. Appl. Cryst. 47, 1797-1803, (2014), doi:10.1107/S1600576714019773.

Links

• Contact: There is a mailing list for DPDAK: dpdak@desy.de. You are invited to subscribe to be informed about new versions, to ask questions and to provide feedback.
• Code development for DPDAK is done using Git. You are welcome to browse the repository.