PMID- 15930618 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20050818 LR - 20220129 IS - 0907-4449 (Print) IS - 0907-4449 (Linking) VI - 61 IP - Pt 6 DP - 2005 Jun TI - HalX: an open-source LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) for small- to large-scale laboratories. PG - 671-8 AB - Structural genomics aims at the establishment of a universal protein-fold dictionary through systematic structure determination either by NMR or X-ray crystallography. In order to catch up with the explosive amount of protein sequence data, the structural biology laboratories are spurred to increase the speed of the structure-determination process. To achieve this goal, high-throughput robotic approaches are increasingly used in all the steps leading from cloning to data collection and even structure interpretation is becoming more and more automatic. The progress made in these areas has begun to have a significant impact on the more 'classical' structural biology laboratories, dramatically increasing the number of individual experiments. This automation creates the need for efficient data management. Here, a new piece of software, HalX, designed as an 'electronic lab book' that aims at (i) storage and (ii) easy access and use of all experimental data is presented. This should lead to much improved management and tracking of structural genomics experimental data. FAU - Prilusky, Jaime AU - Prilusky J AD - Israel Structural Proteomics Center, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel. FAU - Oueillet, Eric AU - Oueillet E FAU - Ulryck, Nathalie AU - Ulryck N FAU - Pajon, Anne AU - Pajon A FAU - Bernauer, Julie AU - Bernauer J FAU - Krimm, Isabelle AU - Krimm I FAU - Quevillon-Cheruel, Sophie AU - Quevillon-Cheruel S FAU - Leulliot, Nicolas AU - Leulliot N FAU - Graille, Marc AU - Graille M FAU - Liger, Dominique AU - Liger D FAU - Tresaugues, Lionel AU - Tresaugues L FAU - Sussman, Joel L AU - Sussman JL FAU - Janin, Joel AU - Janin J FAU - van Tilbeurgh, Herman AU - van Tilbeurgh H FAU - Poupon, Anne AU - Poupon A LA - eng GR - BB/C512110/1/BB_/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom GR - BB/C512145/1/BB_/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20050526 PL - United States TA - Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr JT - Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography JID - 9305878 SB - IM MH - Crystallography, X-Ray/methods MH - *Databases, Protein MH - *Software EDAT- 2005/06/03 09:00 MHDA- 2005/08/19 09:00 CRDT- 2005/06/03 09:00 PHST- 2004/07/22 00:00 [received] PHST- 2005/01/13 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2005/06/03 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2005/08/19 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2005/06/03 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0907444905001290 [pii] AID - 10.1107/S0907444905001290 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2005 Jun;61(Pt 6):671-8. doi: 10.1107/S0907444905001290. Epub 2005 May 26.