map-plane

Plane views of density maps

This is a libary to visualise planes through electron density maps.

Citation

If you use this tool please cite:

Rachel Alcraft (2026). Publication details forthcoming.

Data Storage

Downloaded data (pdb and electron desntiy) is stored in ~/.map_plane/data/ by default.
To use a custom location:
export MAP_PLANE_DATA=/your/preferred/path

Reproducing the Paper Figures

Figure 1 — Fourier truncation rings in 1EGJ (0.54 Å)

Input data: fetched automatically from EBI Electron Density Server
PDB accession: 1EGJ
Expected output: Fourier truncation rings visible at bond electron distances

Data

All electron density data is fetched automatically from the EBI Electron Density Server (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/eds). No data is bundled with this repository.

Please cite the EBI if you use this tool:

Wojdyr et al. (2022). The Protein Data Bank at 50. Nucleic Acids Research.

Dependencies

Python 3.9+ See pyproject.toml for full details

Install with: pip install git+https://github.com/rae-gh/map-plane.git

Licence

MIT Licence — see LICENSE file.

Acknowledgements

Mark Williams, Birkbeck College, University of London.
Tracey Barrett, Birkbeck College, University of London.

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What This Repository Is Not

• Not production software
• Not fully documented beyond the README and notebook comments
• Not containerised
• Not continuously integrated

It is reproducible evidence of the results in the paper and thesis.