The Stanford Automated Mounter: Enabling High-Throughput Protein Crystal Screening at SSRL

Journal of Laboratory Automation

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 335-343

  Smith, Clyde A ^a   Cohen, Aina E ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

cryocrystallography; high throughput screening; protein crystallography; remote access; robotics

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MATERIALS; MINERALOGY; MOUNTINGS; POWDERS; PURIFICATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; THROUGHPUT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ADVANCED SOFTWARES; BEAM LINES; CRYOCRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATA COLLECTIONS; DIFFRACTION QUALITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALLOGRAPHIES; MOUNTING SYSTEMS; PHOTON BEAMS; PROTEIN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PROTEIN CRYSTALS; QUALITY CRYSTALS; REMOTE ACCESS; STANFORD; STRUCTURAL BIOLOGIES; STRUCTURE DETERMINATIONS; X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; NATURAL SCIENCE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ROBOTICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 56349128701     PISSN: 22110682     EISSN: 15402452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jala.2008.08.008     Document Type: Article

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