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Hello All, I am forwarding a message below about a database program (LIMS for Crystallography). The authors are looking for testers and feedback on improving the functionality of the product. Please contact the author directly with questions and/or comments. Your feedback and testing would be much appreciated. Thanks Balaji ============================================================================= The software can be downloaded from http://www.impact-sol.com/download/xtalSoft.zip Contact Information Vandana Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================================================================= Impact Solutions LLC is proud to announce the launching of xtalSoft (pronounced as Crystal Soft), a data management tool for X-Ray Crystallography. The tool comes with an intuitive user interface and allows the X-Ray crystallography researchers to record daily observations and retrieve the data at a later time. The data is saved in a secure manner and can be shared among various researchers in the group. Some of the key features of the product are given below. Features of xtalSoft 1. User Role based security - two roles, viz., USER and ADMINISTRATOR are available in xtalSoft. Administrators can create projects, set users and their authorizations, set server path to save crystallography data, in addition to all the USER related functions. The USERs can record experimental observations pertaining to the protein whose structure they are trying to determine. 2. User Authorization - Users are assigned to projects. They can manipulate and retrieve data for only those projects that they are assigned to. Data for other projects is not visible to the user if he/she is not assigned to it. 3. User Management - New users can be created and their passwords can be reset. 4. Project Based Architecture: Project is the starting and central point for storing protein data. Proteins belong to a project and projects are assigned to users. 5. Crystallography Manager - The tool allows the user to follow a logical process in determining the protein structure. Add general protein information, protein purification - gel level details, Crystal set up - record crystal set up information. Set up crystal screens and record daily observations on the progress of the wells in various screens. Screen data can be exported to Excel. Crystal properties - record observations on crystals obtained in various screens Data Collection - record observations on crystal data collected using X-Rays Data processing information - record information on how the data collected was processed. New data can be entered and current data can be manipulated. 6. Create Custom Screens - New screens can be created and used for crystal setup. 7. Import Screens from Excel - Screens already created in Excel can be imported into xtalSoft. 8. Reports - Run administrative, project specific and protein specific reports and export data to Excel. 9. View images - Images of purified protein gels can be uploaded and viewed. 10. Integration with other applications - xtalSoft is integrated with other applications such as PyMOL. Protein related files can be downloaded from a network file server or protein data bank, and viewed in PyMOL. This requires that PyMOL already be installed. 11. Free Email support 12. Best of all - the product is free!
