• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Xi-cam: a versatile interface for data visualization and analysis
  • Contributor: Pandolfi, Ronald J.; Allan, Daniel B.; Arenholz, Elke; Barroso-Luque, Luis; Campbell, Stuart I.; Caswell, Thomas A.; Blair, Austin; De Carlo, Francesco; Fackler, Sean; Fournier, Amanda P.; Freychet, Guillaume; Fukuto, Masafumi; Gürsoy, Dogˇa; Jiang, Zhang; Krishnan, Harinarayan; Kumar, Dinesh; Kline, R. Joseph; Li, Ruipeng; Liman, Christopher; Marchesini, Stefano; Mehta, Apurva; N'Diaye, Alpha T.; Parkinson, Dilworth Y.; Parks, Holden; [...]
  • imprint: International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), 2018
  • Published in: Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
  • Language: Not determined
  • DOI: 10.1107/s1600577518005787
  • ISSN: 1600-5775
  • Keywords: Instrumentation ; Nuclear and High Energy Physics ; Radiation
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  • Description: <jats:p> <jats:italic>Xi-cam</jats:italic> is an extensible platform for data management, analysis and visualization. <jats:italic>Xi-cam</jats:italic> aims to provide a flexible and extensible approach to synchrotron data treatment as a solution to rising demands for high-volume/high-throughput processing pipelines. The core of <jats:italic>Xi-cam</jats:italic> is an extensible plugin-based graphical user interface platform which provides users with an interactive interface to processing algorithms. Plugins are available for SAXS/WAXS/GISAXS/GIWAXS, tomography and NEXAFS data. With <jats:italic>Xi-cam</jats:italic>'s `advanced' mode, data processing steps are designed as a graph-based workflow, which can be executed live, locally or remotely. Remote execution utilizes high-performance computing or de-localized resources, allowing for the effective reduction of high-throughput data. <jats:italic>Xi-cam</jats:italic>'s plugin-based architecture targets cross-facility and cross-technique collaborative development, in support of multi-modal analysis. <jats:italic>Xi-cam</jats:italic> is open-source and cross-platform, and available for download on GitHub.</jats:p>