X-ray Detector Software for processing single-crystal monochromatic diffraction data recorded by the rotation method: Developed and maintained by Wolfgang Kabsch, with core contributions from Kay Diederichs, XDS is the one of the gold standards for MX data processing. To guarantee its long-term availability, DECTRIS has entered an exclusive licensing agreement with Max Planck Innovation, Wolfgang Kabsch, and Kay Diederichs to steward, distribute, and support the software for the decades ahead.
- Free and unlimited academic use
- No time limitation or version expiration
- Used for >50% PDB structures from synchrotron MX data
How can I use XDS?
Download & Run
XDS runs on most Linux and MacOS distributions. To obtain XDS, simply request your download link below, unpack the software and run. Commercial users can obtain a yearly license from DECTRIS.
Run online via DECTRIS CLOUD
Use XDS in your browser with no installation, no environment maintenance and ready-to-run XDS templates, inlcuding automated visualization of results. The free academic tier of DECTRIS CLOUD includes up to 100 free XDS runs per month.
How to ensure XDS produces consistent results?
We believe that cross-version verification is one of the most rigorous reproducibility tests available for experimental data processing today.
For the first time, users of XDS can verify the consistency and reliability of data processing results over current and past software versions. DECTRIS CLOUD hosts stable, prepackaged XDS releases alongside 50+ reference datasets, so anyone can inspect the software's behavior in detail accross different beamlines, detector types, sample systems, and data foramts.
This work has been guided and enabled by Gleb Bourenkov, Gerard Bricogne, Ashwin Chari, Kay Diederichs, Wolfgang Kabsch, and Clemens Vonrhein.
Explore Version Stability of XDS
