The Stanford Automated Mounter: Pushing the limits of sample exchange at the SSRL macromolecular crystallography beamlines

Russi, Silvia; Song, Jinhu; McPhillips, Scott E.; Cohen, Aina E.

doi:10.1107/S1600576716000649

The Stanford Automated Mounter: Pushing the limits of sample exchange at the SSRL macromolecular crystallography beamlines

Journal Article · Tue Feb 23 23:00:00 EST 2016 · Journal of Applied Crystallography (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576716000649· OSTI ID:1253923

Russi, Silvia ^[1]; Song, Jinhu ^[1]; McPhillips, Scott E. ^[1]; Cohen, Aina E. ^[1]

SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

The Stanford Automated Mounter System, a system for mounting and dismounting cryo-cooled crystals, has been upgraded to increase the throughput of samples on the macromolecular crystallography beamlines at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. This upgrade speeds up robot maneuvers, reduces the heating/drying cycles, pre-fetches samples and adds an air-knife to remove frost from the gripper arms. As a result, sample pin exchange during automated crystal quality screening now takes about 25 s, five times faster than before this upgrade.

Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1253923

Report Number(s):: SLAC-PUB-16477; PII: S1600576716000649

Journal Information:: Journal of Applied Crystallography (Online), Journal Name: Journal of Applied Crystallography (Online) Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 49; ISSN 1600-5767; ISSN JACGAR

Publisher:: International Union of CrystallographyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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