Synchrotron Soleil is the French national synchrotron source located on the Saclay Plateau in the Parisian suburbs. Two beamlines dedicated to the macromolecular crystallography, PROXIMA1 and PROXIMA2A, have hosted both academic and industrial users for the several years now. To cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, the development and implementation of computing tools have been accelerated to facilitate remote access. Both beamlines were the first to come back on-line host users after the lockdown in May 2020.
- The two beamlines are remotely controlled via NoMachine. - Recent developments allow users to prepare and visualize their data in EXI2 - a new version of ISPyB : http://vedette-ng.synchrotron- soleil.fr:8081/EXI2/ - XDSME and AutoPROC pipelines are available for automatic image processing and the results can be examined via EXI2. Some output results can be downloaded.
- GLOBUS is now available for data retrieval: http://globus.org
To maintain contact with our user community, we have instigated regular BAG training webinars.
Instructions and tutorials are also available on the SOLEIL website.
In view of the planned upgrade to the SOLEIL storage ring, proposals for the future of MX at SOLEIL are being prepared. These will be presented to the user community at a workshop in 2022.