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A joint workshop will be held on Oct 10 at the ALS and on Oct 11 at
SSRL focusing on collaborative developments in automated sample
screening and rapid crystal assessment. The aim of the workshop is
to familiarize users with the Uni-Puck and the use of the Web-Ice
data analysis software. Although the majority of automated sample
mounting systems are compatible with Hampton-style magnetic cryo-pins,
many types of containers are used for sample pin transportation and
storage. To simplify sample preparation for the synchrotron user
community, a collaboration was formed between the ALS, APS SBC-CAT,
and SSRL to develop the Uni-Puck, a common sample pin storage and
shipping container compatible with the robotic sample mounting
systems used at all of these facilities. Workshop participants will
gain hands-on experience using the newly designed Uni-Puck with both
the ALS and SSRL robotic sample mounting systems. Web-Ice is a web
browser-based facility for diffraction image viewing, image
analysis, autoindexing and strategy calculation developed at SSRL
and in collaboration with LBNL. Workshop participants will learn how
to use Web-Ice to display screening results, index diffraction
patterns and set up strategies for data collection. At the ALS a
series of talks on the morning of the first day will provide
background material, and technical details of the Uni-Puck and
Web-Ice. The afternoon of the same day users will be able to gain
experience using the puck in the Berkeley Auto-mounter at the ALS
sector 5.0 beamlines. The following day, in the morning at SSRL,
users will use the Uni-Puck in the Stanford Auto-mounter. In the
afternoon the Web-Ice software will be demonstrated.
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