Blu-Ice and the Distributed Control System: software for data acquisition and instrument control at macromolecular crystallography beamlines.
By Timothy M. McPhillips, S. Mcphillips, Hsiu‐Ju Chiu, A. Cohen, Ashley Deacon, Paul J. Ellis, E. Garman, Ana González, Nicholas K. Sauter, R. Phizackerley and 2 more. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 2002
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- The protein complex crystallography beamline (BL19U1) at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (2019, neutral): “Users are quite familiar with the SSRF’s revised version of Blu-Ice [10, 11], which has also been implemented on BL19U1 so that users will not feel any operational differences among macromolecular crystallographic beamlines (BL17U1 [12], BL17B1, BL18U1, and BL19U1) at the SSRF.”
- Implementation and performance of SIBYLS: a dual endstation small-angle X-ray scattering and macromolecular crystallography beamline at the Advanced Light Source (2013, methodology): “Most hardware that requires movement has been motorized and is controlled via the dedicated Blu-Ice and DCS system originally developed at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL; McPhillips et al., 2002) and modified specifically for SAXS data collection at the SIBYLS beamline (Classen”
- Application of DEN refinement and automated model building to a difficult case of molecular-replacement phasing: the structure of a putative succinyl-diaminopimelate desuccinylase from Corynebacterium glutamicum (2012, methodology): “MAD data were collected on beamline 9-2 at the SSRL at wavelengths corresponding to the high-energy remote ( 1), inflection point ( 2) and peak ( 3) wavelengths of a selenium MAD experiment using the Blu-Ice (McPhillips et al., 2002) data-collection environment.”
- BioXTAS RAW: improvements to a free open-source program for small-angle X-ray scattering data reduction and analysis (2017, methodology): “Many programs exist for performing this reduction: standalone programs or libraries such as FIT2D, pyFAI and DPDAK (Hammersley et al., 1996; Benecke et al., 2014; Ashiotis et al., 2015; Hammersley, 2016); custom solutions for a particular synchrotron beamline, such as the version of BluICE (McPhilli”
- The macromolecular crystallography beamline of SSRF (2015, positive): “The Blu-Ice / DCS (Distributed Control System), developed at SSRL [7] and implemented on many beamlines, is extensively utilized by the international user community.”