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EMEN2: An Object Oriented Database and Electronic Lab Notebook

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2013

Ian Rees ,
Ed Langley ,
Wah Chiu  and
Steven J. Ludtke
Ian Rees
Affiliation:
Graduate Program of Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Ed Langley
Affiliation:
Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Wah Chiu
Affiliation:
Graduate Program of Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Steven J. Ludtke*
Affiliation:
Graduate Program of Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Transmission electron microscopy and associated methods, such as single particle analysis, two-dimensional crystallography, helical reconstruction, and tomography, are highly data-intensive experimental sciences, which also have substantial variability in experimental technique. Object-oriented databases present an attractive alternative to traditional relational databases for situations where the experiments themselves are continually evolving. We present EMEN2, an easy to use object-oriented database with a highly flexible infrastructure originally targeted for transmission electron microscopy and tomography, which has been extended to be adaptable for use in virtually any experimental science. It is a pure object-oriented database designed for easy adoption in diverse laboratory environments and does not require professional database administration. It includes a full featured, dynamic web interface in addition to APIs for programmatic access. EMEN2 installations currently support roughly 800 scientists worldwide with over 1/2 million experimental records and over 20 TB of experimental data. The software is freely available with complete source.

Keywords

TEMcryo-EMdatabaseelectronic notebooksoftwareweb interface
Type
Software, Techniques and Equipment Development
Information
Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 1 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2013

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