Known Freely Available Software:

Additions/Corrections/Changes Welcome

• CMPR powder diffraction toolkit written in TCl/TK and fortran (Windows and UNIX)
  • Brian Toby (Brian.Toby@NIST.gov)
  • Visualisation of data files. Peak profiling, combining/merging of data files, manual indexing.
  • Original at http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/programs/crystallography/software/cmpr.html
  • [UK CCP14 Web Mirror]
  • [Australian CCP14 Mirror]
  • Tutorial on its use

• Powder v2.00 for Windows
  • Nita Dragoe (nita.dragoe@lpces.u-psud.fr)
  • Data Evaluation, Background Stripping. Alpha-2 Stripping and Smoothing.
  • Original at http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp/web-mirrors/ndragoe/html/software.html
  • Tutorial on its use: Powder Tutorial - by Nita Dragoe (deposited at CCP14 site)

• PowderX for Windows
  • Cheng Dong (chengdon@aphy.iphy.ac.cn)
  • Data Evaluation, Background Stripping. Alpha-2 Stripping and Smoothing.
  • Zip files can be downloaded off the web and password for extracting the ZIP files obained by E-mailing the author: Cheng Dong (chengdon@aphy.iphy.ac.cn)
  • Tutorial on download and its use: [Original at CCP14 UK Mirror]

• Pulwin for Windows
  • Sergio Bruckner (sergio.bruckner@dstc.uniud.it)
  • Windows binary with graphical user interface
  • Home FTP Site at ftp://ftp.cc.uniud.it/DEBVIN/
  • [UK CCP14 Mirror]
  • [Canadian CCP14 Mirror]

• Winfit for Windows
  • Stefan Krumm (krumm@geol.uni-erlangen.de)
  • Data Evaluation
  • Original at http://www.geol.uni-erlangen.de/html/software/soft.html
  • [UK CCP14 Web Mirror]
  • [Australian CCP14 Mirror]

• Winplotr - Windows
  • T. Roisnel (roisnel@llb.saclay.cea.fr or plotr@llb.saclay.cea.fr )
  • Display multiple patterns in a pseudo 3D plot, automatic/manual peak finding, profiling software - can pass onto indexing software via Winplotr interface.
  • Home website at http://www-llb.cea.fr/winplotr/winplotr.htm
  • [UK CCP14 Web Mirror]
  • [Australian CCP14 Mirror]

  • Home FTPsite at ftp://bali.saclay.cea.fr/pub/divers/winplotr/
  • [UK CCP14 Web Mirror]
  • [Australian CCP14 Mirror]
  • Tutorial on its use: [Original in France] | [UK Mirror] [Australian Mirror]
  • Tutorial includes: "Find and refine a unit cell (Cimetidine synchrotron data)", "Manual Profile Fitting Procedure (part of the PbSO4 Round Robin neutron pattern)", "Automatic Profile Fitting Procedure (Tb3Fe5O12 garnet neutron pattern)". "Display diffraction patterns in a pseudo 3D plot".

• XFIT for Windows
  • Alan Coelho and Bob Cheary
  • Profiling Software.
  • CCP14 version can open around 150 separate files.
  • Can save everything as a project (PRJ) file.
  • Very good at mass analysis of large amounts of data. (PSD, Energy Dispersive)
  • Deposited at CCP14 UK Mirror
  • Tutorial on its use: [Original at CCP14 UK Mirror]