CrysAlisPro is accessible either via a graphical user interface or by a command line interface and can be operated under fully automatic, semi-automatic or completely manual control. A typical experiment is conducted in three stages:
- Automatic crystal screening - A short pre-experiment of <5 minutes evaluates the crystal quality, providing unit cell and best exposure time information
- Strategy computation - Sophisticated automatic strategy software calculates optimal conditions for fast, high quality, complete data collection
- Data collection and concurrent data reduction As data is collected, intelligent routines tune the parameters to give the best quality integrated data
CrysAlisPro also provides hundreds of specialist tools for dealing with non-standard and problematic crystals. These include:
- Movie based face indexation absorption correction
- Advanced unit cell finding
- Reciprocal space viewer
- Twinning
- Incommensurates
- High Pressure
- Powders
CrysAlisPro outputs data in HKLF format and interfaces directly with OLEX2, SHELX and third party data reduction packages including MOSFLM and XDS. CrysAlisPro is provided under a multi-site, multi-user licence.