Appion

h1. Grid Management

The grid management tools handle registration, modification, and deletion of grid boxes and grids.  A grid registered in the database can be associated the images easily.  Currently, the management tool is primarily used for grids to be handled by grid insertion/extraction robots coupled with Leginon's "Robot-MSI screen" applications.  Apart from that, only "Manual" application has the interface for selecting grids from the database.  Appion-only users can ignore this management tool.

This tool is located at http://your_myamiweb/project/gridtray.php

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Grid registration starts with register a new grid box.

h2. 1. Grid Boxes

The grids are located in a grid box. 

# Click on <new> tab under the heading "Grid Box".

# Type an label unique to the database.

*There are three types of grid boxes defined:  4 slot cryo grid box, typical 50 slot grid box, and 96 well robot grid tray*

# Select the type of grid box used.

# Click on "add" to register this grid box in the database.

h2. 2. Grids

# Click on <new> tab under the heading "Grid" to register a new grid

# Label needs to be unique to the project it belongs to and is a required field.

# The specimen, preparation allows up to 100 characters.  Since they are searchable, consistent definition of the field in the database is ideal.

# Specimen field can be used to identify the protein or crystallization condition.

# Preparation is usually used for define method of grid preparation such as the type of stain used.

# Number is used to separate multiple grids made with the same specimen and preparation.

# Notes field is a text field and can be longer than 100 characters.

h2. 3. Upload Grids

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