title: Operation of the Australian Store.Synchrotron for macromolecular crystallography.
abstract: The Store.Synchrotron service, a fully functional, cloud computing-based solution to raw X-ray data archiving and dissemination at the Australian Synchrotron, is described. The service automatically receives and archives raw diffraction data, related metadata and preliminary results of automated data-processing workflows. Data are able to be shared with collaborators and opened to the public. In the nine months since its deployment in August 2013, the service has handled over 22.4 TB of raw data (∼1.7 million diffraction images). Several real examples from the Australian crystallographic community are described that illustrate the advantages of the approach, which include real-time online data access and fully redundant, secure storage. Discoveries in biological sciences increasingly require multidisciplinary approaches. With this in mind, Store.Synchrotron has been developed as a component within a greater service that can combine data from other instruments at the Australian Synchrotron, as well as instruments at the Australian neutron source ANSTO. It is therefore envisaged that this will serve as a model implementation of raw data archiving and dissemination within the structural biology research community.
authors.affiliation: Monash eResearch Centre, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia.
authors.forename: Grischa R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.affiliation: Macromolecular Crystallography, Australian Synchrotron, 800 Blackburn Road, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aragão
authors.affiliation: Macromolecular Crystallography, Australian Synchrotron, 800 Blackburn Road, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia.
authors.forename: Nathan J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Mudie
authors.affiliation: Macromolecular Crystallography, Australian Synchrotron, 800 Blackburn Road, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia.
authors.forename: Tom T
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Caradoc-Davies
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia.
authors.forename: Sheena
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McGowan
authors.affiliation: Library, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia.
authors.forename: Philip J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Bertling
authors.affiliation: Library, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Groenewegen
authors.affiliation: Monash eResearch Centre, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia.
authors.forename: Stevan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Quenette
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009, Western Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: Charles S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Bond
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia.
authors.forename: Ashley M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Buckle
authors.affiliation: Monash Bioinformatics Platform, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia.
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Androulakis
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D066289:Data Curation / Q000379:methods*; D017356:Synchrotrons; D057188:Workflow
keywords: Australian Store.Synchrotron; data archiving