Grid Computing Research Laboratory State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton Department of Computer Science

Randall Bramley, Kenneth Chiu, Tharaka Devadithya, Nisha Gupta, Charles Hart, John C. Huffman, Kianosh Huffman, Yu Ma, and Donald F. McMullen
"Instrument Monitoring, Data Sharing, and Archiving Using Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA)",
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 2006; 46(3),
March 24, 2006
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Abstract
The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) aims at Grid-enabling a wide range of scientific instruments and sensors to enable easy access to and sharing and storage of data produced by these instruments and sensors. This paper describes the implementation of CIMA applied to the field of single- crystal X-ray crystallography. To allow the researchers to easily view the current and past data streams from the instruments or sensors in a laboratory, a crystallography portal and associated portlets were developed for this application. The CIMA-based crystallography system provides an opportunity for anyone with Web access to observe and use crystallographic and other data from laboratories that previously had only limited access.

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