DOCUMENTATION OVERVIEW

Syntax and Tutorials.

• Introduction to SPIDER.
• A Tutorial for Getting started with SPIDER.
• The User Manual complete guide to the SPIDER system, describing conventions and syntactical rules.
• The Tutorial is a teaching guide for using for the SPIDER system.
• Some more info on how to get started with Unix, Linux, and SPIDER.
• Glossary of terminology.

SPIDER Operations.

• An alphabetical list of operations and a task list of operations.
• Each operation is described in a seperate HTML manual file in directory: SPIDER_DIR/docs/man/.
  For example, the windowing operation 'WI' is described in SPIDER_DIR/docs/man/wi.html. Each operation is also described in a separate plain text file in directory: SPIDER_DIR/man/ which is used as a source for building the HTML manual pages.
• Bugs.
• Changes in SPIDER usage and syntax.

• The Index of SPIDER Procedures provides a listing of examples of various SPIDER procedures or 'batch' files.
• The Techniques page provides an listing of methods of using SPIDER including topics like: Particle Picking, Contrast Transfer Function Correction, Alignment, Multvariate Statistics, and several other methods.

• SPIDER image file description.
• SPIDER Fourier transform file.
• SPIDER Euler angle conventions.
• SPIDER document files.
• Color look-up table files for use with WEB.

• Information for prospective SPIDER users.

• Howto install SPIDER on Linux & OSX

• Howto compile and link SPIDER on Linux & AIX

• Index to WEB documentation.
• Howto install Web on Linux
• Howto install Web on OSX
• Index to JWEB (Java implementation of Web) documentation.

• New features or changes in operation usage.
• Frequently asked questions for SPIDER and Web.
• A philosophy of the single particle approach to 3D reconstruction.
• Spire (SPIDER Reconstruction Engine).
• PubSub (SPIDER's System for distributed parallel computation on clusters).
• Using SPIDER under MPI.
• Some relevant WWW Sites.