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

Journal of Synchrotron Radiation

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 401-406

  McPhillips, Timothy M ^a   McPhillips, Scott E ^a   Chiu, Hsiu Ju ^a   Cohen, Aina E ^a   Deacon, Ashley M ^a   Ellis, Paul J ^a   Garman, Elspeth ^a   Gonzalez, Ana ^a   Sauter, Nicholas K ^a   Phizackerley, R Paul ^a   Soltis, S Michael ^a   Kuhn, Peter ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamline automation; Data acquisition; Graphical user interface; Instrument control; Macromolecular crystallography; Remote access

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; MACROMOLECULE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0036849859     PISSN: 09090495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1107/S0909049502015170     Document Type: Article

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