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Instrument Monitoring, Data Sharing, and Archiving Using Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA)

Randall Bramley,^† Kenneth Chiu,^‡ Tharaka Devadithya,^† Nisha Gupta,^§ Charles Hart,^§ John C. Huffman, Kianosh Huffman,* Yu Ma,^† and Donald F. McMullen^§

Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, 215 Lindley Hall, 150 S. Woodlawn, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY), P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, New York 13902, The Knowledge Acquisition and Projection Lab of The Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University, 501 N. Morton St. Bloomington, Indiana 47404, and School of Informatics, Indiana University, 901 E. 10th St., Bloomington, Indiana 47408

J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2006, 46 (3), pp 1017–1025

DOI: 10.1021/ci050368l

Publication Date (Web): March 24, 2006

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Department of Computer Science, Indiana University.

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Department of Computer Science, SUNY.

Pervasive Technology Labs, Indiana University.

School of Informatics, Indiana University.

Corresponding author phone: +1-(812)-855 6742; e-mail: kihuffma@ indiana.edu.

Abstract

The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) aims at Grid-enabling a wide range of scientific instruments and sensors to enable easy access to and sharing and storage of data produced by these instruments and sensors. This paper describes the implementation of CIMA applied to the field of single-crystal X-ray crystallography. To allow the researchers to easily view the current and past data streams from the instruments or sensors in a laboratory, a crystallography portal and associated portlets were developed for this application. The CIMA-based crystallography system provides an opportunity for anyone with Web access to observe and use crystallographic and other data from laboratories that previously had only limited access.

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