Open AccessOperation of the Australian Store.Synchrotron for macromolecular crystallography
Author(s) -
Meyer Grischa R.,
Aragão David,
Mudie Nathan J.,
CaradocDavies Tom T.,
McGowan Sheena,
Bertling Philip J.,
Groenewegen David,
Quenette Stevan M.,
Bond Charles S.,
Buckle Ashley M.,
Androulakis Steve
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acta crystallographica section d
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1399-0047
DOI - 10.1107/s1399004714016174
Subject(s) - synchrotron , workflow , raw data , metadata , service (business) , computer science , software deployment , world wide web , data science , database , software engineering , business , physics , optics , marketing , programming language
The Store.Synchrotron service, a fully functional, cloud computing‐based solution to raw X‐ray data archiving and dissemination at the Australian Synchrotron, is described. The service automatically receives and archives raw diffraction data, related metadata and preliminary results of automated data‐processing workflows. Data are able to be shared with collaborators and opened to the public. In the nine months since its deployment in August 2013, the service has handled over 22.4 TB of raw data (∼1.7 million diffraction images). Several real examples from the Australian crystallographic community are described that illustrate the advantages of the approach, which include real‐time online data access and fully redundant, secure storage. Discoveries in biological sciences increasingly require multidisciplinary approaches. With this in mind, Store.Synchrotron has been developed as a component within a greater service that can combine data from other instruments at the Australian Synchrotron, as well as instruments at the Australian neutron source ANSTO. It is therefore envisaged that this will serve as a model implementation of raw data archiving and dissemination within the structural biology research community.