Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

An Informatics Infrastructure for Combinatorial and High-throughput Materials Research Built on Open Source Code

Published

Author(s)

Weiping Zhang, Michael J. Fasolka, Alamgir Karim, Eric J. Amis

Abstract

Laboratory Research Informatics Systems (LRIS) hold great promise in streamlining research generally, and are particularly necessary for new data-intensive research strategies such as combinatorial and high-throughput approaches. In this paper, we describe a LRIS geared towards combi materials research, which is being established in lab facilities at the NIST Combinatorial Method Center (NCMC). When complete, this system will seamlessly integrate the library design, fabrication, measurement and analysis/datamining aspects of the combi approach into a functional whole geared towards accelerating materials research. Our budding LRIS system is built upon an open source database (PostgreSQL ), and incorporates non-proprietary user/instrument interface and automation software generated largely through the Python programming language. Free to use/modify, and designed for transparency, the NCMC LRIS project aims to provide working examples of informatics infrastructure development to those interested in assimilating such tools into their research programs.
Citation
Measurement Science & Technology
Volume
16
Issue
No. 1

Keywords

combinatorial methods, informatics, laboratory automation

Citation

Zhang, W. , Fasolka, M. , Karim, A. and Amis, E. (2005), An Informatics Infrastructure for Combinatorial and High-throughput Materials Research Built on Open Source Code, Measurement Science & Technology, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=852365 (Accessed November 11, 2024)

Issues

If you have any questions about this publication or are having problems accessing it, please contact reflib@nist.gov.

Created December 31, 2004, Updated October 12, 2021