BEAM LINE SOFTWARE UPGRADE FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT PROTEIN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY EXPERIMENTS AT THE PHOTON FACTORY
Photon Factory · 2005
An integrated controlling system based on the unified database newly designed, is developed and realized for high-throughput protein crystallography experiments on synchrotron beam lines. Main features of protein crystallography experiments (purification, crystallization, loop preparation, data collecting, data processing) are dealt with the software. All information necessary to perform protein crystallography experiments is stored (except raw data, that are stored in a Network file servers) in a relational database (MySQL). The control system consists of several local servers and clients connected through network [1,2]. All communications are performed through TCP/IP sockets. Secure network connections such as OpenSSL, an open-source implementation of the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocols are used wherever secure server-client communication is needed. Secure remote access to the system is possible from any operating system with Xterminal and SSH/X11 (Secure Shell with graphical user interface) support.