title: SynchLink: an iOS app for ISPyB.
abstract: The macromolecular crystallography (MX) user experience at synchrotron radiation facilities continues to evolve, with the impact of developments in X-ray detectors, computer hardware and automation methods making it possible for complete data sets to be collected on timescales of tens of seconds. Data can be reduced in a couple of minutes and in favourable cases structures solved and refined shortly after. The information-rich database ISPyB, automatically populated by data acquisition software, data processing and structure solution pipelines at the Diamond Light Source beamlines, allows users to automatically track MX experiments in real time. In order to improve the synchrotron users' experience, efficient access to the data contained in ISPyB is now providedviaan iOS 6.0+ app for iPhones and iPads. This provides users, both local and remote, with a succinct summary of data collection, visualization of diffraction images and crystals, and key metrics for data quality in real time.
authors.affiliation: Diamond House, Diamond Light Source , Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK ; Division of Structural Biology, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford , Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3 7BN, UK.
authors.forename: Helen Mary
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Ginn
authors.affiliation: Diamond House, Diamond Light Source , Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK.
authors.forename: Ghita Kouadri
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Mostefaoui
authors.affiliation: Diamond House, Diamond Light Source , Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK.
authors.forename: Karl Erik
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Levik
authors.affiliation: Diamond House, Diamond Light Source , Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK ; Division of Structural Biology, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford , Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3 7BN, UK.
authors.forename: Jonathan Mark
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Grimes
authors.affiliation: Diamond House, Diamond Light Source , Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK.
authors.forename: Martin Austin
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.affiliation: Diamond House, Diamond Light Source , Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK.
authors.forename: Alun William
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Ashton
authors.affiliation: Diamond House, Diamond Light Source , Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK ; Division of Structural Biology, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford , Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3 7BN, UK.
authors.forename: David Ian
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Stuart
keywords: laboratory information management systems (LIMS); macromolecular crystallography; remote data collection; synchrotron radiation