Developers Page

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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" of the Scipion architecture.

• Scipion EM Classes Diagram containing EM Classes and its relations.

• Release Notes What has been done in each release.

• Road map 2018 What we want to do for the next release.

Extending Scipion

• Guide: developing scipion plugins

• Adding a Package

• Creating a Protocol Find out how to add a new Protocol to Scipion.

• Creating a monitor

• Customize the HTML report

• Developing output Viewers

• Integrating parameter Wizards

• Writing Tests, Tests, and more Tests

Development Tools

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

• Setup your Development Environment, we prefer Eclipse or PyCharm

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.