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Development of Auto-Mounting System for Screening Protein Crystals.
- Source :
- AIP Conference Proceedings; 2007, Vol. 879 Issue 1, p1875-1878, 4p, 2 Color Photographs, 1 Chart, 3 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- We are developing a robotic system for auto-mounting protein crystals from a sample cassette in liquid nitrogen to a goniometer head. A small industrial six joint axis robot is adopted for this system with a custom built actuator. It will be installed at a wiggler protein crystallography beam-line in Pohang Accelerator Laboratory. Our design goal is to make the system applied to every type of sample pins such as a screw or magnetic types of pins with 18mm length. The sample cassette is designed to contain 10 crystals, which is similar to ALS and ACTOR systems. The diameter of a hole is 17 mm for several type caps. It’s bigger than others. A sample Dewar with two type sensors for monitoring liquid nitrogen level can contain 5 cassettes at a time. We designed two types of actuator for holding the cap containing a protein crystal. These whole hardware and software are under development in PAL. Our system and some test results will be introduced in this paper. © 2007 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PROTEINS
CRYSTALS
ROBOTICS
LIQUID nitrogen
CRYSTALLOIDS (Botany)
DETECTORS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0094243X
- Volume :
- 879
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Publication Type :
- Conference
- Accession number :
- 23923602
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2436437