Why We are Meeting

ACA 2018 HDRMX Meeting in Toronto:

http://www.medsbio.org/meetings/Report_HDRMX_Meeting_22Jul18.html

After some preliminary discussion of the agenda, the group chose to focus on the issue of heterogeneity and incompleteness of metadata in diffraction images from Eiger Detectors which can prevent processing of datasets at institutions other the one at which they are created. After considerable and sometimes heated discussion, a unanimous consensus was reached on the following:

Formation of a new e-mail discussion group to unite data processing software developers and beamline scientists responsible for the content of output files from data collection from MX detectors. The new group was charged with

1. Make data and metadata reprocessible at places where it was not collected.
2. Gather samples of data with metadata on the HDRMX web site as a uniform front end, making use of repositories such as the Integrated Resource for Reproducibility in Macromolecular Crystallography (IRRMC, https://www.proteindiffraction.org/), the SBGrid Data Bank (/https://data.sbgrid.org/), and other facilities that provide dataset DOIs as the backends.
3. Software developers should provide a command line script to process each of the listed datasets with special attention to what special cases arise, with a goal of eliminating the need for special exceptions
4. Beamline scientists will be asked to provide sample dataset DOIs for the HDRMX website representative of their beamline output and to cooperate with software developers on removal of exceptions