Harvesting Crystals for X-ray diffraction

A crystal can be harvested within an experiment. You can associate with it:

  • Location on the crystallography plate

  • Description of the reservoir solution

  • Proteins

  • Cocrystals and Soak Solutions

  • Position within the puck

  • And textual information

The list of fields is being extended with time. All these can be listed in the CSV reports during data mining.

Crystal ID

An identifier is generated automatically when a crystal is registered. It consists of the Experiment Name, Plate Location and a sequence number within the experiment.

It’s impossible to delete/re-use the identifier. If you want to dispose of a crystal, you can leave comments/mark is as a failure.

Uploading crystals

Instead of entering crystal details on UI you can upload a spreadsheet with all of them, here’s an example. After that you can edit the crystal on the UI.