Developers Page¶

Welcome to the Scipion Developers Page!

On this page, you will find documentation about the Scipion architecture and how you can easily extend Scipion with new functionality. If you are completely new to the Scipion framework, we recommend that you start with our Introduction to Scipion Developers

General Information¶

Architecture: take a look at the big picture
Scipion EM Classes: Diagram containing EM Classes and its relations
Conventions : How scipion understands rotations, translations, symmetries …
Release-notes: What has been done in each release.
Road map 2018 What we want to do for the next release.

Extending Scipion¶

Scipion can be ‘easily’ extended by Creating a Plugin to do an specific task or to introduce a new software package:

Creating a protocol
Integrating parameter Wizards
Developing output Viewers
Creating a monitor
Customize the HTML report
Writing Tests

Development Tools¶

Git¶

Using git: Find the most used commands and practices using git in Scipion.

Development environment¶

Setup your Development Environment, we prefer Eclipse-IDE or PyCharm-IDE

Advanced Development Topics¶

The following link contains Advanced-Development-Topics. The information provided is intended for developers working in our lab and developing the core of Scipion. Anyway, some general information is also found such as Profiling and Debugging.