CCP4 is a large set of stand-alone programs designed primarily for macromolecular X-ray crystallography.  There are many programs in the suite that are of interest to anyone dealing with structures of macromolecules.

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Additional tweaks: I've left XUSERFILESEARCHPATH unset globally because fink requires this.  Instead, I now set it in shell-script wrappers for xplot84driver and xloggraph. I have also taken the liberty of changing the file /sw/share/xtal/ccp4-5.0.1/lib/X11/app-defaults/XCCPJiffy to  make the last but 2 lines look like this: XCCPJiffy*psPlotCommand: ps2pdf - > /tmp/pattersonmap.pdf ; open -a Preview /tmp/pattersonmap.pdf XCCPJiffy*textPrintCommand: lpr (keeping the very last line as it is) I have also changed the line XCCPJiffy*absoluteScaleType.state:        True to XCCPJiffy*absoluteScaleType.state:        False These changes enable you to hit the plot button and instead of printing a postscript file, you get a pdf diplayed in Preview (which you can then print or save).  This saves trees.  You need to have ghostscript installed (which can be done with fink). Here is a screen-shot of how it looks: Click image to enlarge. In addition, I suggest installing ImageMagick (with fink) and then defining a function (or creating a shell script) containing the following: #!/bin/zsh -f # file name overlay if [[ $# = 3 ]] ; then   composite -density 300x300 -compose copyred "$@"   open -a Preview "$3" else   print "Usage:    overlay imagefile1 imagefile2 name_of_output_file "   print "Uses the ImageMagick composite command.  Any image file types can be mixed and matched."   return 1  fi This lets you take two Patterson map sections and overlay them.  Here's a screenshot: % overlay patterson1.pdf patterson2.pdf overlay_patterson.pdf