80 experts to drive scientific innovation in experimental data acquisition software for structural biology and chemistry at the MXCuBE-ISPyB meeting

01/12

Elettra has organized the latest MXCuBE-ISPyB Joint meeting held at Elettra on November 20-22. This periodic event gives to more than 15 large scale facilities the opportunity to gather and share ideas and experiences on software development for science. MXCuBE, a project started in 2005 at ESRF, with the objective of providing crystallography beamlines users an easy-to-use software platform to run their experiments, and ISPyB, a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) combining sample tracking and experiment reporting at synchrotron beamlines, represent the more widespread software platforms in use to collect experimental data in the structural biology area, especially for macromolecular crystallography (MX) experiments. In 2010, a collaboration agreement has been signed for their development, involving major synchrotron facilities around Europe. Nowadays this collaboration includes also several facilities from other continents. More than 40 experts were present on site covering North and South America, Europe, Oceania and Asia. The event was organized in hybrid mode giving the opportunity to more than 80 beamline scientist and engineers to have a fruitful three-days brainstorming on the future of MX community needs and opportunities.