Phaser Crystallographic Software
Phaser is a program for phasing macromolecular crystal structures with maximum likelihood methods. It has been developed by Randy Read's group at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR) in the University of Cambridge and is available through the Phenix and CCP4 software suites.
Use the sidebar to navigate through the extensive documentation for Phaser.
This wiki supersedes the obsolete Phaser homepage, which now redirects to this wiki. A copy of the obsolete Phaser homepage can be found here
Currently Supported Releases
We are pleased to announce that from October 2012 official releases of Phaser will be synchronised in Phenix and CCP4. Please install the CCP4 Updater to receive these updates in CCP4.
Phaser-2.5.5
- Download with Phenix Official Release 1.8.4 (29th September 2013) → Phenix
- Download with CCP4 6.4 → CCP4
- Full Documentation → Manual
- Quicklinks to Keywords → Keywords
Phaser-2.5.6-beta *unstable*
- Download with Phenix Nightly Builds → Phenix
Referencing Phaser
Citing crystallographic software in your paper is important for funding new software development. We rely on your citations to convince funding bodies that our software is being used.
If you solve a structure with Phaser, please cite
- Phaser crystallographic software
- McCoy AJ, Grosse-Kunstleve RW, Adams PD, Winn MD, Storoni LC, Read RJ.
- J Appl Cryst (2007). 40, 658-674.