title: Beamline Scheduling Software: administration software for automatic operation of the RIKEN structural genomics beamlines at SPring-8.
abstract: Beamline Scheduling Software (BSS) has been developed for the schedule management and equipment control of the RIKEN Structural Genomics Beamlines I and II (BL26B1 and BL26B2 at SPring-8). The beamline operation is automated with a sample-changer robot and a database system. The experimental schedule is registered to BSS as a list of diffraction measurements for numbers of protein crystals. BSS implements the beamline operation communicating with beamline instruments through the computer network. The RIKEN Structural Genomics Beamline I (BL26B1) opened for users using BSS in October 2002, and the automatic operation was implemented at BL26B2 in October 2003.
authors.affiliation: SPring-8/RIKEN, Kouto, Mikazuki, Sayo, Hyogo, Japan. ueno@spring8.or.jp
authors.forename: Go
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ueno
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kanda
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kumasaka
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
mesh_terms: D001331:Automation; D019992:Databases as Topic; D023281:Genomics; D007564:Japan; D012371:Robotics; D012984:Software; D013048:Specimen Handling / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017356:Synchrotrons / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014584:User-Computer Interface