High-throughput sample handling and data collection at synchrotrons: embedding the ESRF into the high-throughput gene-to-structure pipeline.

An automatic data-collection system has been implemented and installed on seven insertion-device beamlines and a bending-magnet beamline at the ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) as part of the SPINE (Structural Proteomics In Europe) development of an automated structure-determination pipeline. The system allows remote interaction with beamline-control systems and automatic sample mounting, alignment, characterization, data collection and processing. Reports of all actions taken are available for inspection via database modules and web services.

• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography

• Publication date

  2006-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1107/S0907444906032859PMID 17001093
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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