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The Stanford Automated Mounter: Pushing the limits of sample exchange at the SSRL macromolecular crystallography beamlines
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1253923
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-16477
Journal ID: ISSN 1600-5767; JACGAR; PII: S1600576716000649
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Applied Crystallography (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 49; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1600-5767
- Publisher:
- International Union of Crystallography
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; automated crystal mounting; high-throughput sample exchange; sample exchange robot; synchrotron robotics; protein crystallography; remote access; cryo-crystallography
Citation Formats
Russi, Silvia, Song, Jinhu, McPhillips, Scott E., and Cohen, Aina E. The Stanford Automated Mounter: Pushing the limits of sample exchange at the SSRL macromolecular crystallography beamlines. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1107/S1600576716000649.
Russi, Silvia, Song, Jinhu, McPhillips, Scott E., & Cohen, Aina E. The Stanford Automated Mounter: Pushing the limits of sample exchange at the SSRL macromolecular crystallography beamlines. United States. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576716000649
Russi, Silvia, Song, Jinhu, McPhillips, Scott E., and Cohen, Aina E. 2016.
"The Stanford Automated Mounter: Pushing the limits of sample exchange at the SSRL macromolecular crystallography beamlines". United States. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576716000649. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1253923.
@article{osti_1253923,
title = {The Stanford Automated Mounter: Pushing the limits of sample exchange at the SSRL macromolecular crystallography beamlines},
author = {Russi, Silvia and Song, Jinhu and McPhillips, Scott E. and Cohen, Aina E.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1107/S1600576716000649},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1253923},
journal = {Journal of Applied Crystallography (Online)},
issn = {1600-5767},
number = 2,
volume = 49,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Wed Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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