PMID- 21949273 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120313 LR - 20181201 IS - 1367-4811 (Electronic) IS - 1367-4803 (Linking) VI - 27 IP - 22 DP - 2011 Nov 15 TI - ISPyB: an information management system for synchrotron macromolecular crystallography. PG - 3186-92 LID - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr535 [doi] AB - MOTIVATION: Individual research groups now analyze thousands of samples per year at synchrotron macromolecular crystallography (MX) resources. The efficient management of experimental data is thus essential if the best possible experiments are to be performed and the best possible data used in downstream processes in structure determination pipelines. Information System for Protein crystallography Beamlines (ISPyB), a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) with an underlying data model allowing for the integration of analyses down-stream of the data collection experiment was developed to facilitate such data management. RESULTS: ISPyB is now a multisite, generic LIMS for synchrotron-based MX experiments. Its initial functionality has been enhanced to include improved sample tracking and reporting of experimental protocols, the direct ranking of the diffraction characteristics of individual samples and the archiving of raw data and results from ancillary experiments and post-experiment data processing protocols. This latter feature paves the way for ISPyB to play a central role in future macromolecular structure solution pipelines and validates the application of the approach used in ISPyB to other experimental techniques, such as biological solution Small Angle X-ray Scattering and spectroscopy, which have similar sample tracking and data handling requirements. FAU - Delageniere, Solange AU - Delageniere S AD - European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 38043 Grenoble, France. FAU - Brenchereau, Patrice AU - Brenchereau P FAU - Launer, Ludovic AU - Launer L FAU - Ashton, Alun W AU - Ashton AW FAU - Leal, Ricardo AU - Leal R FAU - Veyrier, Stephanie AU - Veyrier S FAU - Gabadinho, Jose AU - Gabadinho J FAU - Gordon, Elspeth J AU - Gordon EJ FAU - Jones, Samuel D AU - Jones SD FAU - Levik, Karl Erik AU - Levik KE FAU - McSweeney, Sean M AU - McSweeney SM FAU - Monaco, Stephanie AU - Monaco S FAU - Nanao, Max AU - Nanao M FAU - Spruce, Darren AU - Spruce D FAU - Svensson, Olof AU - Svensson O FAU - Walsh, Martin A AU - Walsh MA FAU - Leonard, Gordon A AU - Leonard GA LA - eng GR - Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom GR - Medical Research Council/United Kingdom PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20110924 PL - England TA - Bioinformatics JT - Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) JID - 9808944 RN - 0 (Macromolecular Substances) RN - 0 (Proteins) SB - IM MH - Crystallography, X-Ray/instrumentation/*methods MH - Data Collection MH - Macromolecular Substances/chemistry MH - *Management Information Systems MH - Proteins/*chemistry MH - *Synchrotrons MH - X-Ray Diffraction EDAT- 2011/09/29 06:00 MHDA- 2012/03/14 06:00 CRDT- 2011/09/28 06:00 PHST- 2011/09/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/09/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/03/14 06:00 [medline] AID - btr535 [pii] AID - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr535 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Bioinformatics. 2011 Nov 15;27(22):3186-92. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr535. Epub 2011 Sep 24.