As with any substantial application package, the ASPIRE project needed a convenient way to specify configuration settings pertaining to different parts of the computational pipeline.

What follows below are some outlines from our attempts to tackle this configuration issue. Where a supplementary (and hopefully useful) nugget is provided, or a caveat discussed, I shall append a linked numeral, like so: (n)

A brief background of ASPIRE

ASPIRE is a Python (3.6) package under development, which ingests Micrographs, the output of Cryo-Electron Microscopy (images that closely resemble television static), and comes up with a 3D reconstruction of the molecule. Read the excellent writeup on the ASPIRE page for a more comprehensive review of the package.