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Blu-ice and the distributed control system: Software for data acquisition and instrument control at macromolecular crystallography beamlines

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authors

  • McPhillips, T. M.
  • McPhillips, S. E.
  • Chiu, H. J.
  • Cohen, A. E.
  • Deacon, A. M.
  • Ellis, P. J.
  • Garman, E.
  • Gonzalez, A.
  • Sauter, N. K.
  • Phizackerley, R. P.
  • Soltis, S. M.
  • Kuhn, Peter

publication date

  • November 2002

journal

  • Journal of Synchrotron Radiation  Journal

abstract

  • The Blu-Ice and Distributed Control System (DCS) software packages were developed to provide unified control over the disparate hardware resources available at a macromolecular crystallography beamline. Blu-Ice is a user interface that provides scientific experimenters and beamline support staff with intuitive graphical tools for collecting diffraction data and configuring beamlines for experiments. Blu-Ice communicates with the hardware at a beamline via DCS, an instrument-control and data-acquisition package designed to integrate hardware resources in a highly heterogeneous networked computing environment. Together, Blu-Ice and DCS provide a flexible platform for increasing the ease of use, the level of automation and the remote accessibility of beamlines. Blu-Ice and DCS are currently installed on four Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory crystallographic beamlines and are being implemented at sister light sources.

subject areas

  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Humans
  • Macromolecular Substances
  • Software
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Research

keywords

  • beamline automation
  • data acquisition
  • graphical user interface
  • instrument control
  • macromolecular crystallography
  • remote access
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0909-0495

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1107/s0909049502015170

PubMed ID

  • 12409628
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 401

end page

  • 406

volume

  • 9

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