Institute of Physics
Department of Structure Analysis
Cukrovarnicka 10
16253 Praha 6
Czech Republic
News
October 23, 2008  Maintenance release of Jana2006 for Windows can be obtained in our Download area. It cumulates various improvements and bug fixes. More information.
October 14, 2008   Eset NOD32 antivirus slows down Jana2006. More
July 25, 2008  The first stable version of Jana2006 for Windows. This program is the successor of Jana2000. Currently only Windows version is available, Unix version as well as manual are under development. The Stable version will be changed occassionally, the everyday work will be immediately available in the Latest version. Registered users will be informed about new Stable versions. Jana2006 can be obtained in our Download area.
July 22, 2008  New web page for Jana contains all information about Jana2006 and the previous version Jana2000. We have partially changed also download locations, please do not use old links.
December 28, 2007  Final version of Jana2000 - see the Download area. No further development is expected in Jana2000.
Jana2006 is a crystallographic program focused to solution, refinement and interpretation of difficult, especially modulated structures. It calculates structures having up to three modulation vectors from powder as well as single crystal data measured with X-ray or neutron diffraction. The input diffraction data can be unlimitedly combined, the combination of powder neutron data with single crystal X-ray data being a typical example. The structure solution can be done using the built-in charge flipping algorithm or by calling an external direct methods program. Jana can handle multiphase structures (for both powder and single crystal data), merohedric twins as well as twins with partial overlap of diffraction spots, commensurate and composite structures. It contains powerful transformation tools for symmetry (group-subgroup relations), cell parameters and commensurate-supercell relations. Wide scale of constrains and restrains is available including a powerful rigid body approach and possibility to define a local symmetry affecting only part of the structure. The latest development of Jana concerns magnetic structures.
More about Jana2006 (PowerPoint presentation, 10MB)
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Jana system is a freeware but we are interested who is using it. We would like our users to register. Registered users get e-mails about major updates.
Jana2000: development of this program has been finished. Jana2000 input files can be used in Jana2006, the necessary conversions are done automatically.
Jana2006 for UNIX: porting of Jana2006 to UNIX is in progress but it is not yet finished.
User manuals: not yet available. The old manuals for Jana98 and Jana2000 are still partially useful.
Program Version string Download from www-xray.fzu.cz
Jana2006 for Windows, STABLE
Jana2006 for Unix, STABLE - - - - not available
Jana2006 for Windows, LATEST
Jana2006 for Unix, LATEST - - - - not available
Jana2000 for Windows, FINAL
Jana2000 for Unix, FINAL
(jana2000Pack.exe contains installation procedure)
Manuals (partially useful also for Jana2006) - - - -
STABLE versions are not frequently changed, registered users get information about their releases. LATEST versions are changed frequently and contain the latest development. FINAL versions are not further developed. BETA versions are pre-releases of new major upgrades.
Installation
Jana2006 for Windows, fresh installation. Execute the self-extracting archive janainst.exe. Before the extraction choose installation directory. After the extraction go to Control panel - System - Advanced - Environment variables and set the system-wide environment variable JANA2006DIR to the name of the installation directory. Execute jana2006.exe.
Jana2006 for Windows, upgrade. Execute the self-extracting archive janainst.exe. Before the extraction choose the installation directory where the original version of Jana2000 has been installed. Execute jana2006.exe.
Jana2006 for UNIX. Unix version is not yet available.
Jana2000 for Windows, fresh installation. Execute the self-extracting archive janainst.exe. Before the extraction choose installation directory. After the extraction go to Control panel - System - Advanced - Environment variables and set the system-wide environment variable JANADIR to the name of the installation directory. Go to Display Properties - Effects and make sure Clear type fonts are not used for smoothing edges of screen fonts. Execute jana2000.exe.
Jana2000 for UNIX, fresh installation. Requisities: FORTRAN compiler, C compiler, SDK for X11. Download jana2000Pack.exe and put it one level above the future installation directory (for jana2000Pack.exe in directory xxx, the installation directory will be xxx/jana2000). Start csh or tcsh, execute `source jana2000Pack.exe' and follow instructions of the installation procedure. No JANADIR is necessary if the installation stays in the default directory.
Common troubleshooting for Windows. Make sure that JANADIR and JANA2006DIR contain proper name of installation directory. Make sure that your files copied from CD are not read-only. Make sure that Jana2000 is not used with Clear type fonts. Do not use Desktop as an installation directory.
Common troubleshooting for UNIX. Make sure SDK for X11 is installed, in most Linux distributions only run-time libraries are present by default. The installed Jana executable cannot be moved from the default installation directory jana2000 without special arrangements.
LINKS: Installation of Jana for Windows | Installation of Jana for Mac OS X (slightly outdated, needs revision)
Registration
Jana system is a freeware but we are interested who is using it. Registered users are placed to our internal list and get e-mails about major updates.
New registration: type your e-mail, choose a password and submit the registration.
Changes of existing registration: type your e-mail, password and submit. Forgotten password can be sent to your e-mail address
Do not use precious passwords, this is not encrypted connection.
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External Programs
Main parts of Jana are our own computer code. For some special functionalities Jana can call external programs. Some of them are distributed with Jana, the others must be downloaded from their web pages. The configuration of external programs is done through Tools -> Preferences.
Program Description www
Superflip Program for solving structures by charge flipping. Distributed with Jana and immediately available.
MCE Program for electron densities visualization. Distributed with Jana, available after defining the path in Tools->Preferences->3d map visualization.
VESTA Program for electron densities visualization. Available after download, installation and defining the path in Tools->Preferences->3d map visualization.
SIR97, SIR2002, SIR2004 Program for solving structures by direct methods from single crystal diffraction data. Available after download, installation and defining the path in Tools->Preferences.
EXPO, EXPO2004 Program for solving structures by direct methods from powder diffraction data. Available after download, installation and defining the path in Tools->Preferences.
graphic viewer Programs for plotting crystal structures. It can be any program accepting CIF as an input in command line, for instance Diamond, Atoms, Platon. Available after download, installation and defining the path in Tools->Preferences->Graphic viewer. many possibilities
Versions & Roadmap
July 22, 2008  The first stable version of Jana2006 for Windows. New features comparing with Jana2000:
  • Combines data regardless to wavelength, radiation type (X-rays,synchrotron, neutrons) and diffraction type (single crystals, powder)
  • Integrates the charge flipping program Superflip
  • Powders: offers Fundamental approach for profile parameters, works with TOF data
  • Special functions: uses Legendre polynomials, no orthogonalization procedure needed
  • Automatic recovering from singular points
  • Support for magnetic structures, simultaneous refinement of magnetic and nuclear structure
  • Many changes in graphic interface, especially in fonts; improvement of most tools; more powerful Wizards
  • Better support for standard structures, CIF editor
  • Program has been rewritten in Fortran95, dynamical allocation of memory reduces memory requirements
Roadmap
  • Finishing manual and porting to Unix
  • Finishing magnetic structures
  • Polishing all features
  • Starting development of beta version Jana2012 with completely new interface
Motto: make simple tasks automatically and complicated tasks simply
Recipes
Citation & support
Petricek,V., Dusek,M. & Palatinus,L.(2006). Jana2006. The crystallographic computing system. Institute of Physics, Praha, Czech Republic.
Development of Jana is continuously supported by Grant Agency of the Czech Republic and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Thanks to this support we can make the program freely available to everybody.
Contact Us
Program development is not possible without user feedback and interaction. Please contact us with bug reports, feature suggestions and structure determination difficulties. We also provide measurement of interesting samples in our laboratory.
Vaclav Petricek Michal Dusek Lukas Palatinus
petricek@fzu.czdusek@fzu.czpalat@fzu.cz
Main developer Unix, manuals, web,
features design
Charge flipping, MacOSX
Address: Institute of Physics, Cukrovarnicka 10, 16253 Praha, Czech Republic
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