OptiLink

Presentation

The automatic screening of crystallization solutions can allow to obtain quickly information on the crystallization conditions of a protein. Screening of predefined conditions can sometimes be enough to find the buffer, salt and precipitating agent conditions necessary to obtain a crystal, but in most cases, we must refine one or more crystallization conditions, with promising results. This optimization phase may be lengthy and complex because it is often necessary to refine different conditions for a single protein.

To simplify the optimization of crystallization conditions, the IBS Protein crystallization platform and the GIPSE team developed in collaboration with the EMBL crystallization platform, the OptiLink software : this software can generate Gemini scripts (version 4.2 or more) to control a Tecan® robot for filling crystallization plates defined through the software OptiCrys. This software allows to avoid the manual programming of the robot by the experimenter.

References

Use of the software should be referenced as follows :

OptiLink software : Creation of Tecan® Gemini scripts for the robotic generation of cristallization plates. Céline Charavay, Stéphane Segard, Delphine Blot, Martin Roewer and Jose Marquez

Contact : OptiLink at ibs.fr

Demonstration

OptiLink (Adobe Flash Player needed)

Documentation

French version :
OptiLink-gui
OptiLink-cli

Download

The OptiLink software is distributed under the CeCILL-C license.

Before downloading the software, you must read the license.
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