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The Stanford Automated Mounter: pushing the limits of sample exchange at the SSRL macromolecular crystallography beamlines
Author(s) -
Russi Silvia,
Song Jinhu,
McPhillips Scott E.,
Cohen Aina E.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of applied crystallography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.429
H-Index - 162
ISSN - 1600-5767
DOI - 10.1107/s1600576716000649
Subject(s) - upgrade , synchrotron , synchrotron radiation , sample (material) , materials science , nuclear engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , optics , physics , chemistry , engineering , chromatography , operating system
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. Sample pin exchange during automated crystal quality screening now takes about 25 s, five times faster than before this upgrade.