As an Operator
The role of an operator is to prepare the data management and pre-processing pipelines for a microscope user. This entails:
- Creating an 'experiment' in the following nomlecture: YYYYMMDD-<PROPOSAL ID>
- One can clone an existing experiment (recommended) or create a new one
- Edit the experiment (in the list of experiments) with the appropriate details: specifically include
- The name and email of the PI
- add a 'Leader' to the experiment (SLAC unix username) - this person should be the person who is physically running the experiment and collecting data
- Assign the correct TEM to the experiment
- Once an experiment has been prepared, it can be 'switched'
- Once an experiment is finished, the TEM should be put into standby
As an User
The logbook provides a means for the user to have their data automatically copied to long term storage. It will also instantiate the pre-processing pipelines to automatically correct and align your images. It will also perform some rudimentary particle picking. Image data will also be relayed back to the user via the logbook and also via a SLAC-cryoEM slack channel.
Before collecting data, you should edit your sample data under the sample tab. Be sure to include information about
- the type of data collection you are performing [
tomography
orsingle-particle ]
the image format you are collecting with [
.tif
or.mrc
]- the apix value
- the fmdose
- whether the images are
superres
(set to1
for yes,0
for no) - whether the images are collected using a
phase_plate
or not.