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Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
THPL005	Automation of the Macromolecular Crystallography Beamlines at the Canadian Light Source	controls, synchrotron, alignment	130
	M. N. Fodje, R. Berg, G. Black, P. Grochulski, K. Janzen CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
	The Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility (CMCF) is a suite of two beamlines 08ID-1 and 08B1-1. Beamline 08B1-1 is a bending-magnet beamline for high-throughput macromolecular crystallography enabling Multiple-Wavelength Anomalous Dispersion (MAD) and Single-Wavelength Anomalous Dispersion (SAD) experiments with a high level of automation. The primary method of access to CMCF 08B1-1 will be remote, in what is commonly referred to in the field as ‘Mail-in Crystallography’. We are developing a software system for automating the beamlines, with modules for beamline control, experiment control, data analysis, information management, and graphical user interaction. The system is developed using the Python programming language and makes use of popular open-source frameworks such as Twisted, Django and GTK. Once completed, the system will allow complete and supervised automation of the macromolecular crystallography experiment from experiment setup to data analysis, thereby increasing the efficiency of the CMCF beamlines and reducing the need for user travel to the synchrotron.
	Poster
THPL014	The ANKA B-Field Test Facility Control System, based on a SPEC Macro Package Enhanced Setup	power-supply, controls, insertion, insertion-device	156
	K. Cerff, W. Mexner, T. Spangenberg Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe
	The ANKA B-field test facility provides users with a flexible tool to investigate magnetic field distributions of different setups of coils or permanent magnets, optimal sensor types, geometrical arrangement and the possibility to change the independent physical stimuli to generate and alter magnetic field distributions. It is taken as an example of a straightforward device implementation with a recently introduced type of macro based ‘building block system’ for devices in spec. This macro package provides the C-like spec with an object orientated framework, with a namespace and class concept to represent the power supplies of different brands, probe positioning devices and measurement amplifiers. The device properties are stored as elements of an associative spec array, together with a set of standardized commands to access them. Their degree can be assumed to be volatile, private or public. The device properties can be initialized by default or synchronized with the values of the represented physical devices.
	Poster