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.

Extending Scipion

Scipion can be ‘easily’ extended by Creating a Plugin to do a 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

• Running tests

• Buildbot

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.

Internal development tools and hints

• Building Scipion docs

Tutorials

• Developers tutorials