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Using a GA to identify X-Ray Diffraction Intensity Points

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 SASSA Project
 Collagen Project
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 Aim
This EPSRC funded project aimed to develop a general method for applying Genetic Algorithms (GA) to the process of identifying the location and strength of intensity peaks in Bragg reflections in X-ray diffraction images of semi-crystalline structures such as collagen. A more in depth description of the project and an indication of some of the results are available here.

People
The project was a collaboration between Prof. Tim Wess at the University of Cardiff and Dr Graeme Cameron and Dr David Cairns from the University of Stirling. The original inspiration and motivation for this project was provided by Prof. Andrew Miller from the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Software
The software used to perform the analysis and generate the images shown in the results will be made available here in December 2006. This software is written in Visual C++ and executes on Windows XP.

Contact
If you wish to contact us regarding this project or to use the methods and software developed in the project, please email Dr David Cairns at the University of Stirling.

     
Email dec@cs.stir.ac.uk - Web www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~dec - Tel 01786 467445 - Fax 01786 464551
Mail Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, FK9 4LA
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